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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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 know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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