Quote by Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order t

The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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

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good
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I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, shell screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely. – Kim Basinger

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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that its possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes – clashes of ego. – Taylor Hackford

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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones theyve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale

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Kisses honeyed by oblivion. – George Eliot

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No one is listening until you make a mistake. – Anon.

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Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms – Japanese Proverb

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