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" When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "
Samuel Johnson
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" A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. "
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" No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. "
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" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "
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" The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. "
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" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "
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" Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. "
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" One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. "
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" Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. "
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" To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. "
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" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "
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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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" 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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" Actions are visible, though motives are secret. "
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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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" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "
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" The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. "
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" Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. "
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" It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. "
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" Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. "
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" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "
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" To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. "
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" Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. "
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" Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. "
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" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "
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" The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. "
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