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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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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
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The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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