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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rat

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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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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Travel
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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Evangelism
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

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Twenty cant be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twentys eternal love affairs. – Emily Carr

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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. – Henry David Thoreau

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And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5 – Bible

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Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. – Daniel Radcliffe

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Its funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times Ive been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. Its just cause were all named Emma. None of us look alike. – Emma Roberts

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Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people whove got an incredible talent was just a great experience. – Tom Felton

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