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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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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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