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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
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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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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
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A vow is a snare for sin
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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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The vicious count their years virtuous, their acts.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.
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The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
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