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Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
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 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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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
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To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
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