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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."
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"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."
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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."


"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."


"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
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