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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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