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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find 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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Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
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I will be conquered I will not capitulate.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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