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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Discord generally operates in little things it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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