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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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 hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.
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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.
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Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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