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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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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Creation
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Samuel Johnson
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow

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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

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 cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought. – Basile

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