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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
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Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom it is to be sure, good for nothing but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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