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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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"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
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