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 greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. – Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774

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When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

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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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We are betrayed by what is false within. – George Meredith

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