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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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