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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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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – 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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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mothers womb a fanatic heart. – William Butler Yeats

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo

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