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Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. - Samu

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. – Samuel Johnson

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Death
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Samuel Johnson
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

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Mathematics
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Samuel Johnson
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. – Abigail van Buren

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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. – Robert MacIver

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Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. – Tim McMahon

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Adventure may hurt but monotony will kill you. – Author Unknown

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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. – Noah Webster

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There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. – Frederick W. Faber

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