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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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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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