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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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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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