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Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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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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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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