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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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 king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
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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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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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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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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.
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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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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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