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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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 (1709 - 1784), Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rambler #18
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
It is better to live rich than to die rich.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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