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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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Lichfield
Staffordshire
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There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar and many fold in their passage while they lie waiting for the gale.
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