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Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
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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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