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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. - Samuel J

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

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

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Age
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Samuel Johnson
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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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Wise Words
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I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry

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Perspective

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana

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Perspective

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window — that is at once interesting. – Billy Wilder

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Perspective

If anyone were to be willing to trace his descent through an ape as his grandfather, would he be willing to trace his descent similarly on the side of his grandmother? – Samuel Wilberforce

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Perspective

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All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it. – Dave Barry

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Music

Its really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community. – Jonathan Davis

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cool

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. – Archibald Philip Primrose

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If beauty isnt genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. – Peter York

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