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"Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds."
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The first years of man must make provision for the last.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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And lonely want retir'd to die.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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