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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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Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Life admits not of delays when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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Poetry cannot be translation
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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