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Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary but yet it is not easy to avoid.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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