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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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Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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