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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
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The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
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