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Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy knowledge is not always present.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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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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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
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To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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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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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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