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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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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
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The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
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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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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
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