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You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
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All envy is proportionate to desire we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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