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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.
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The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
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Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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The future is bought with the present.
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You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
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The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
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The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
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The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
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