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The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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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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Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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