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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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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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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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