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To build is to be robbed.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
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Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous and where among her followers will she find a husband?
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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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