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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. - Samuel Johnson

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. – Samuel Johnson

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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. – Samuel Johnson

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Observation
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Samuel Johnson
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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Exercise
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Samuel Johnson
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Epitaphs
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At last God caught his eye. – Harry Secombe

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Epitaphs

Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Epitaphs

And were an epitaph to be my story Id have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lovers quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost

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Epitaphs

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. Thats the story of my private life. – Gloria Swanson

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Epitaphs

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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. – John Boyd Orr

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley

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