"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich."

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Insight & Reflection

When Samuel Johnson speaks about humor, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of humor in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".

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"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."

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"When you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'"

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