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Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
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