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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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