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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

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Samuel Johnson
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Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. – Paul Harris

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History is a peoples memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. – Malcom X

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History

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. – Paul Ryan

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History

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. – George Eliot

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