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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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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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Truth allows no choice.
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A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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