Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.Samuel Johnson
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
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No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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We took tea, by Boswell's desire and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.
Samuel Johnson
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night and then the nap takes me.
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