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It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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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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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
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