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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.
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Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned
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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 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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Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.
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What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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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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