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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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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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Self-love is a busy prompter.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous and where among her followers will she find a husband?
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species to remark general properties and large appearances.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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