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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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