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By writing, you learn to write.
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 trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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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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This is my history like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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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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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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