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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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No one ever became great by imitation.
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur so many immediate evils are
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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