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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Security will produce danger.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
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A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
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A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.
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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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