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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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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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To build is to be robbed.
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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
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It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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