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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
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