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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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 consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
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Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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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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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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All envy is proportionate to desire we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
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