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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

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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Country
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Memory
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. – James Branch Cabell

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Memory

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

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Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul. – Aristotle

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Memory

It was as if some silver chime had waked a chord in his memory. – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

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Memory

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Go put your creed into your deed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. – Author Unknown

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I think Im an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. – Susan Sarandon

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Material possessions: the more you own, the more they own you. – H.I. Phillips (1889–1965)

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Clutter