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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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