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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.
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You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
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