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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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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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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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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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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
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