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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Whatever you have spend less.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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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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To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
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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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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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