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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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Staffordshire
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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I will be conquered I will not capitulate.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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No one ever became great by imitation.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
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As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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