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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
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Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.
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Misfortunes should always be expected.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
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Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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