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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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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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Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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