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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous and where among her followers will she find a husband?
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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