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Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
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Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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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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Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity where there is vanity, there will be folly.
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
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I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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