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Quote by Samuel Johnson
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable,

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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Gambling (Gaming)
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? – Dennis Prager

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. – Li Ka Shing

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He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. – Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930

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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. – George Byron

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