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A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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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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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told and the adage is verified in your place and my favour but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.
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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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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
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Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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