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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
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Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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