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

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. – Harry Browne

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History

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. – Richard Reeves

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History

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. – Madeleine Albright

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History

History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases. – William Stubbs

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History

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To me, flowers are happiness. – Stefano Gabbana

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Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. – Michel Leiris

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn. – Chinese Proverb

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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. – Sid Caesar

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