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Samuel Johnson Quotes
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~ Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent ~
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~ Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. ~
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~ All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. ~
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~ I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ~
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~ No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. ~
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~ No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. ~
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~ Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ~
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~ Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ~
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~ Words are but the signs of ideas. ~
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~ The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence ~
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~ Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ~
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~ Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly ~
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~ Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. ~
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~ There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. ~
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~ Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world. ~
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