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He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Language is the dress of thought and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy
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Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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