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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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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
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Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Wealth is nothing in itself it is not useful but when it departs from us.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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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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