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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
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