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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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Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.
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