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The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
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 fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him but angry he is, no doubt and he is loath to be angry at himself.
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Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.
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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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