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The process is the reality.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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The future is bought with the present.
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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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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
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Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.
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We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
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Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
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Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
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Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
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