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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.
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Riches seldom make their owners rich.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
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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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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.
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It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
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