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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Discord generally operates in little things it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
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