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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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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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