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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

~Samuel Johnson

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

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It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1709

Died: December 13th, 1784

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