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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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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. ↗

— 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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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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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