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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

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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – 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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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. – Diane Ackerman

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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 leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water. – Anon.

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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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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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