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The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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People seldom read a book which is given to them and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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