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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In a mans letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

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