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There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
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I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
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The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species to remark general properties and large appearances.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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