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When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
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The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom it is to be sure, good for nothing but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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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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I fly from pleasure, said the prince, because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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