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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Lichfield
Staffordshire
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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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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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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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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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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