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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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

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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. ↗

— 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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