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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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