Samuel Johnson

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

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