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Apologies are seldom of any use.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
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Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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