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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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 person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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