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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
This mournful truth is ev’rywhere confessed— Slow rises worth, by poverty depress’d. 1
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
To neglect at any time preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege, but to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Tories, in short, are atrophied Englishmen, lacking certain moral and intellectual reflexes. They are recognisable, homely — even, on occasions, endearing — but liable to turn nasty at short notice.
Truth, Sir, is a cow, that will yield such people [sceptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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Samuel Johnson (18 de setembro de 1709 - 13 de dezembro de 1784) foi um escritor inglês que se tornou um dos mais célebres intelectuais do seu tempo. Nascido em Lichfield, Staffordshire, lutou com problemas de saúde e financeiros durante grande parte da sua vida. A sua obra mais influente, 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), foi um marco na lexicografia inglesa, definindo o vocabulário e a ortografia da língua. Johnson também produziu ensaios perspicazes, sermões, poemas e biografias, incluindo 'Lives of the Poets'. Foi uma figura central nos círculos literários de Londres, conhecido pela sua inteligência aguçada, conversação brilhante e opiniões firmes. A sua vida e obra foram imortalizadas na 'Life of Samuel Johnson' de James Boswell, uma das biografias mais importantes da literatura inglesa.