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The future is bought with the present.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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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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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.
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Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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