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We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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