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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
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The first step to greatness is to be honest.
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Round numbers are always false.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
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