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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Catch then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life’s a short summer, man a flower; He dies – alas! How soon he dies.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience, you will find it a calamity.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Envy is almost the only vice which is practicable at all times and in every place.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks to be the truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Every man is, or hopes to be, an Idler
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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