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A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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No one ever became great by imitation.
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
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Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
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