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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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