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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
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Life protracted is protracted woe.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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