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Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
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Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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Every man is of importance to himself.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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