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Samuel Johnson

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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.


— Samuel Johnson


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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.


— Samuel Johnson


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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.


— Samuel Johnson


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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.


— Samuel Johnson


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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.


— Samuel Johnson


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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.


— Samuel Johnson


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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.


— Samuel Johnson


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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.


— Samuel Johnson


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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.


— Samuel Johnson


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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.


— Samuel Johnson


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About Samuel Johnson

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Did you know about Samuel Johnson?

He soon contracted scrofula known at that time as the "King's Evil" because it was thought royalty could cure it. Instead of writing the whole work himself he dictated to Hector who then took the copy to the printer and made any corrections.

After working as a teacher he moved to London where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage the poems "London" and "The Vanity of Human WiSamuel Johnsons" and the play Irene. S.

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