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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
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The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
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Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
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Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
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Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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