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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
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