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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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