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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced if of ill-fortune, to be pitied and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
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