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in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.

for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...

the ambition of petty accomplishments, in which we believe we’re advancing, but a wiser perspective offers the opposite diagnosis.

the environment is driving me, subconsciously, to choose the effective over the fancy.