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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
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This is my history like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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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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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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