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Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated...
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us...
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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure,...
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented...
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be...
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and...
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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning...
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to...
Quote #26831
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it...