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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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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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Virtue is too often merely local.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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Don't tell me of deception a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
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We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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Apologies are seldom of any use.
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The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
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Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.
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Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
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