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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Sa

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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