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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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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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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.
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Modern writers are the moons of literature they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
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