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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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