Quote by Samuel Johnson
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and d

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. – 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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Other Quotes from
Coffee (or Tea)
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. – Honore de Balzac

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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. – George Mikes

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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. – Diane Ackerman

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. – Agnes Repplier

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Coffee (or Tea)

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