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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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