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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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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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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
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Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
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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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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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