Quotes from authors passed in 1784
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
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
Now one was either Tory or Whig; it was either dependence or independence.
Caesar Rodney
Bram Stoker 
Tobey Maguire 
Carry Nation 
Kirk Hammett 
Trevor Howard 
Malcolm Fraser 
Ma Ferguson 
Lauren Bacall Authors that died in 1784