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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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