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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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Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
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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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There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.
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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
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Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.
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