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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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 traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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Whatever you have spend less.
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