“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
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Samuel Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".[1] He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.[2] ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
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“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
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“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
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“The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.”
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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, bett...”
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“The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.”
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“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.”
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“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
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“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”
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“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
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“I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.”
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“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.”
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“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
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“When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.”
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“The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.”
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“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
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“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
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“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
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“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
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“A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.”
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“You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.”
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