Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

Don΄t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

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