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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

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The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. – Samuel Johnson

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Reputation
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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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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

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Hunting
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. – Miguel de Cervantes

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No vacation goes unpunished. – Karl Hakkarainen

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Vacations

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work. – Elbert Hubbard

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Vacations

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities. – Shirley Jackson

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No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. – E. M. Cioran

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso

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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. – Anthony Daniels

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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you dont know. – Bertrand Russell

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