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Samuel Johnson Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Birthday: September 18

Death: December 13

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

- Samuel Johnson

source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.429

topic: Pain, Home, Journey, Ostentatious, Home Town

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