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

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – 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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How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee. Psalms 119:9-11 – Bible

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

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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. – Eduardo Galeano

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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. – Thomas Hood

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. – David Viscott

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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt

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