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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. - Samue

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Samuel Johnson
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

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Hunting
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Samuel Johnson
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Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”

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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. – Carol Shields

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Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. – Eldridge Cleaver

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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an “intellectual” – find out how he feels about astrology. – Robert A. Heinlein

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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. – Rabindranath Tagore

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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