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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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Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced if of ill-fortune, to be pitied and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.
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Round numbers are always false.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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