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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
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