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Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity where there is vanity, there will be folly.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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All industry must be excited by hope.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
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