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" Actions are visible, though motives are secret. "
Samuel Johnson
Though
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" You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. "
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" No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. "
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" I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. "
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" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. "
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" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "
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" The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "
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" The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. "
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" No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. "
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" By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. "
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" In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. "
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" Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. "
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" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "
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" It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. "
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" He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. "
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" There are charms made only for distant admiration. "
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" No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. "
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" What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. "
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" Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. "
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Yes
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" Love is only one of many passions. "
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" Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. "
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" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "
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