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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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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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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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