A mere literary man is a dull man a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite. . .Samuel Johnson
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour. . .
Samuel Johnson
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Riches exclude only one inconvenience, And that is poverty.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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