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Suspicion is very often a useless 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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Don't tell me of deception a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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