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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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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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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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