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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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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
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The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.
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A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
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