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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
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Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.
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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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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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