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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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It is better to live rich than to die rich. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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