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Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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