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Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been to sea.
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Marriage Quote
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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