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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. - Samuel

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson

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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson

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Age
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Samuel Johnson
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Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Retirement
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Samuel Johnson
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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. – Robert E. Lee

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. – Lao Tzu

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. – Cyril Connolly

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need. – Marquis De Sade

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Youre talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. Ive never really been a dater. – Stockard Channing

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