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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
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