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Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
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 matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.
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To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
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Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
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Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge Rome of elegance
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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
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