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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
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Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
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Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
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