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Occupation alone is happiness.
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 have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him but angry he is, no doubt and he is loath to be angry at himself.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.
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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
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