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The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him but angry he is, no doubt and he is loath to be angry at himself.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was to chosen race That unstinted tide confined Thine is every time and place, Fountain sweet of heart and mind!
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Pleasure itself is not a vice
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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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