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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
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