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Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury for, as I said before it can reach but a very few.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.
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Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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