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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709  – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.

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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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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