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Quote by Samuel Johnson
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – Samuel Johnson

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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

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