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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
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Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.
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