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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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