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Samuel Johnson

(1709-1784) British author.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.

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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

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

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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

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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.

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