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Pleasure itself is not a vice
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
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All industry must be excited by hope.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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