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Quote by Samuel Johnson
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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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Be Yourself
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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Travel
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. – Irvin S. Cobb

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Dont pity me now, dont pity me never; Im going to do nothing for ever and ever. – James Agate

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If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. – Proverb

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life. – Aristotle

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I remain optimistic. What weve seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. – Gijs de Vries

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Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all – no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebodys garage in Los Angeles at that point – for a year. – Renny Harlin

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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life. – Chris Rock

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