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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
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