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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
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You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
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It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.
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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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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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This is my history like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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