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To be of no Church is dangerous.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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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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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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