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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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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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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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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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Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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