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The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.
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 accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
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