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It is happier to be cheated than not to trust.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Languages are the pedigrees of nations.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
| 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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Melancholy, indeed should be diverted by everything but drinking.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Men are like stone jugs – you may jug them where you like by the ears.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Men hate more steadily than they love.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
| Samuel Johnson | 
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