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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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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine
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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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Complaining
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He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. – Ring Lardner

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Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough

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Miscellaneous

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. – Marcus Porcius Cato

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. – Henry David Thoreau

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Next to a circus there aint nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. – Kin Hubbard

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Theres nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didnt abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. – H. G. Wells

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel. – Ted Nugent

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