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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.

~Samuel Johnson

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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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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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1709

Died: December 13th, 1784

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