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Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
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