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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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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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