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Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
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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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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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