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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
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