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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and an

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Idleness
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

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Vacations
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Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? – Jim Bakker

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. – Carl Gustav Jung

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There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. – Proverb

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Today must not borrow from tomorrow. – Proverb

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The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. – Antonin Artaud

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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nations promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. – George W. Bush

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