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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
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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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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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