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What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
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It is our first duty to serve society.
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
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