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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Long customs are not easily broken he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
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In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
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There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
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Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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