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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

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Cowardice/Weakness
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Labor
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
History
category

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. – Richard M. Nixon

Category:
History

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. – Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas

Category:
History

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. – Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great

Category:
History

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

Category:
History

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I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on. – Oscar Levant

Category:
Alcohol

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person. – Eric Braeden

Category:
respect

Ive always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse. – Jodie Foster

Category:
movies

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation. – Trevor Dunn

Category:
Poetry