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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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To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
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