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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.
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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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By writing, you learn to write.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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