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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are cal

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. – Samuel Johnson

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. – Samuel Johnson

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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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