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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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