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The first step to greatness is to be honest.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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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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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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