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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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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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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was to chosen race That unstinted tide confined Thine is every time and place, Fountain sweet of heart and mind!
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.
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You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
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The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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