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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. -

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

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Hunting
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Samuel Johnson
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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Money
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Samuel Johnson
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless. – Ovid

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Temptation

Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs. – Michael Josephson

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Temptation

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? – Basil Bunting

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Temptation

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