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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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

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Miscellaneous
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

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Vacations
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Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson

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Business
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Other Quotes from
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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Writing

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. – Theodore Dreiser

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Writing

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

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Writing

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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Writing

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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. – George Osborne

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Society

Its very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, youve got it half-made. I mean intellectually. – V. S. Naipaul

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I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. – Marvin Minsky

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Knowledge

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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War