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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pa

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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A whirl of torrid dust veils the picture. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965

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