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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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Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.
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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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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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 most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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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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Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
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Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
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