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- Samuel Johnson: English writer
- Ben Jonson: British Dramatist, Poet
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- Ben Johnson: English playwright and poet
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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, better food and commonly better company.
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