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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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Life is but short no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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