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Quote by Samuel Johnson
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a strang

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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Travel
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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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Strangers
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned. – Alexander Pope

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Strangers

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama… Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly. – Haniel Long

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Strangers

I do desire we may be better strangers. – William Shakespeare

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Strangers

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. – Germaine Greer

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. – Felix Frankfurter

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