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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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