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Quote by Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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Libraries
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Samuel Johnson
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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Equality
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Its really a wonder that I havent dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank

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We call ourselves public servants but Ill tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. – Barbara Jordan

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. – Lenny Kravitz

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A fascinating challenge facing todays environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. – Matt Gonzalez

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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. – Jacob Bronowski

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The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window. – Proverb

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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. – Dean Koontz

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