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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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[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

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Mind
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Samuel Johnson
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine
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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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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

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. – Robert Emmet

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Epitaphs

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

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Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both. – Brian Celio

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When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. – Colin Wilson

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. – Leo Tolstoy

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. – Vernon Howard

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