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Social sorrow loses half its pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Lichfield
Staffordshire
Dr Johnson
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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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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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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