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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

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Cruelty
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Pain
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Other Quotes from
Coffee (or Tea)
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. – Abraham Lincoln

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Coffee (or Tea)

Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink… – Honore de Balzac

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Coffee (or Tea)

Chocolate, men, coffee – some things are better rich. – Anon.

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Coffee (or Tea)

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. – Thomas De Quincey

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Coffee (or Tea)

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Were given a code to live our lives by. We dont always follow it, but its still there. – Gary Oldman

Category:
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. – Kate Chopin

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Trust

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for – to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. – Yuan T. Lee

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car