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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#care #escape #fills #general #humanity

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroys #difficult #enemy #extremely #great

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#always #any #considered #deceiving #great

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enlarges #everything #human #human powers #man

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyed #everywhere #human #human life #life

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#achieved #amount #because #certain #good

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#broke #bucket #buy #catastrophes #go

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#get #humans #i #individuality #less

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor. ↗

— Davy Jones

#humor #i #off #onto #peter

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#emotionally #everybody #fantasy #humour #i