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Quote by Samuel Johnson
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. – Lord Byron

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