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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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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
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It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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