Quote by Samuel Johnson
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vi

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. – Samuel Johnson

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. – John Ruskin

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. – Mark Twain

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I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesnt matter if youre a Democrat or a Republican, young or old. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. – Aeschylus

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I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do. – Sonny Perdue

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Were still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. – Scott Cook

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Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. – Phyllis Diller

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