Quotes from authors born in 1709
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
Charles Lawrence
Authors born in 1709

Francis Cardinal Spellman
Margaret Anderson
David Suzuki
Lajos Kossuth
Roger Waters
Eva Gabor
Brooke Burke
Danny DeVito