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    Samuel Johnson

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    That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #die #had #i #i wish #knew

    Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #jealousy #reckoning #small-mindedness #tea #wine

    You can never be wise unless you love reading. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #life

    Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #fool #love #love is #wisdom #wise

    Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #cultivate #getting #getting money #kindness #life

    In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #life #truth #life

    Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #how #idle #life #long #much

    The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #writing #life

    Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #reminder #men

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


    — Samuel Johnson

    #everything #man #may #much #nothing






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    Did you know about Samuel Johnson?

    He soon contracted scrofula known at that time as the "King's Evil" because it was thought royalty could cure it. Instead of writing the whole work himself he dictated to Hector who then took the copy to the printer and made any corrections.

    After working as a teacher he moved to London where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage the poems "London" and "The Vanity of Human WiSamuel Johnsons" and the play Irene. S.

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