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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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Life is but short no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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