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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it

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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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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