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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him but angry he is, no doubt and he is loath to be angry at himself.
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The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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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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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
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