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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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