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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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