You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
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It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.Samuel Johnson
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.
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Samuel Johnson
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
Samuel Johnson
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
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