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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

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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Money
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

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good
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You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson

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Politics
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
History
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Its incredible to have been part of fashion history – my whole career has been one big highlight. – Helena Christensen

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History

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

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History

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. – Quentin Tarantino

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History

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. – Robert Anton Wilson

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History

Random Quotes

Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. – Jacques Attali

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Music

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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Boredom

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master. – David Rockefeller

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Government

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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Change