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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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In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
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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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Every man is of importance to himself.
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
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The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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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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