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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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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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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
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Riches seldom make their owners rich.
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Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
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The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
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You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
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Life is but short no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
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