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Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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