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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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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
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Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
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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.
Samuel Johnson
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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