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Quote by Samuel Johnson
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my

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

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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Samuel Johnson
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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Samuel Johnson
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The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see. – Author Unknown

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Vacations

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. – Leonardo DaVinci

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Vacations

No vacation goes unpunished. – Karl Hakkarainen

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Vacations

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. – Robert Orben

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Vacations

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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifters belt all the time. – Danny McBride

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teacher

Romantic love is painful. – will.i.am

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Romantic

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady. – Thomas More

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