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Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy knowledge is not always present.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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