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We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
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Misfortunes should always be expected.
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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