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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
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Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits the other recreates and revives them.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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