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No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.
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Virtue is too often merely local.
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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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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
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