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Quote by Samuel Johnson
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of miser

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

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Hunting
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Samuel Johnson
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The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. – Samuel Johnson

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Reputation
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Samuel Johnson
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black mans right to his body, or womans right to her soul. – Emma Goldman

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History
[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History

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History

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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History

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume

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History

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Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written. – Bjorn Ulvaeus

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We wont have a society if we destroy the environment. – Margaret Mead

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environmental

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler

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No one knows what to say in the losers locker room. – Muhammad Ali

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Loss