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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

#anticipation #change #happy #itself #life

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#distribution #memory #offices #two

Football kicks you in the teeth. ↗

— Dave Jones

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#duty #good #only #principles #strong

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fruits #good #improved #men #rotten

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#daughters #delight #done #planets #teach

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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