Quote by Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. – Samuel Johnson

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Observation
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Creation
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Cruelty
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. – Aristotle

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Friendship

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. – Eve Arnold

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Friendship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

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Friendship

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – Eustace Budgell

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Friendship

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. – J. Paul Getty

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isnt every war fought between men, between brothers? – Victor Hugo

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