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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar and many fold in their passage while they lie waiting for the gale.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
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A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.
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Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
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Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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