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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
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Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
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