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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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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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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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