#d

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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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. ↗

— 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

#being #champagne #comfortably #feeling #filled

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ↗

— 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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There are charms made only for distant admiration. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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