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There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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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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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
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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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