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There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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