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Quote by Samuel Johnson
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson

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Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. – Samuel Johnson

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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. – Alfonso X

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All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all. – Cecil Frances Alexander

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Its a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didnt consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. – Samuel Levenson

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