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Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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