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Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

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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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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.
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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
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We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
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A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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