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We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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