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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverte

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. – Samuel Johnson

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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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But to the slave mother New Years day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. – Harriet Ann Jacobs

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