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A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. | Samuel Johnson |
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. | Samuel Johnson |
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A man is in general better pleased when be has a good dinner upon table, than when his wife talks Greek. | Samuel Johnson |
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. | Samuel Johnson |
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined, but by himself. | Samuel Johnson |
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. | Samuel Johnson |
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. | Samuel Johnson |
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments. | Samuel Johnson |
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All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. | Samuel Johnson |
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. | Samuel Johnson |
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An intellectual improvements arise from leisure. | Samuel Johnson |
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. | Samuel Johnson |
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. | Samuel Johnson |
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure and the second devoted to ambition. | Samuel Johnson |
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless. | Samuel Johnson |
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