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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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