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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Staffordshire
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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