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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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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
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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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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
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