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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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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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Security will produce danger.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
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Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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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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