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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
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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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Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
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