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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits the other recreates and revives them.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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