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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

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Students
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Samuel Johnson
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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Women
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesnt often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. – Steven Spielberg

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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. – Vladimir Lenin

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There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. – William Halsey

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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. – Anne Rice

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