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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help 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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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
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