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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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 pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
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