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It matters not how a

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Read over your compositions, and

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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No man will be a

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Mankind have a great aversion

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Patriotism having become one of

Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
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Wine makes a man more

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Classical quotation is the parole

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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There are, in every age,

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
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A man may be so

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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We are inclined to believe

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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