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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
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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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Round numbers are always false.
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Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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