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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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This is my history like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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