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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗

— 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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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— 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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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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