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A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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Life admits not of delays when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
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