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" Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. "
Samuel Johnson
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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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" You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "
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" It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. "
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" I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. "
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" Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. "
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" Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. "
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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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" There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. "
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" Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. "
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" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "
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" Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. "
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" A man will turn over half a library to make one book. "
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" It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. "
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" Love is only one of many passions. "
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" When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. "
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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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" When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. "
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" Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. "
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" What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. "
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" The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "
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" The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. "
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" Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. "
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" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. "
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" We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. "
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" Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. "
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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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" Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. "
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" Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. "
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