Quote by Samuel Johnson
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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Strangers
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Students
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. – André Gide

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I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg

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The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. – Washington Irving

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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. – Alexander Hamilton

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris

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My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid. – Soleil Moon Frye

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