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Quote by Samuel Johnson
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a ma

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. – Samuel Johnson

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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Women
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

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good
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Future
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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. – Aesop

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There are no gains without pains. – Benjamin Franklin

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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Revelation – Bible

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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