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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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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
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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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But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
Samuel Johnson
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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