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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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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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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
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No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
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