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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

~Samuel Johnson

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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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Language is the dress of thought.

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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1709

Died: December 13th, 1784

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