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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

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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Government
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. – Jon Meacham

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From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history. – Marco Rubio

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Something as curious as the monarchy wont survive unless you take account of peoples attitudes. After all, if people dont want it, they wont have it. – Prince Charles

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Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart’s curtain? – Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, “The Fourth Elegy,” translated from German by

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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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I wasnt born a fool. It took work to get this way. – Danny Kaye

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I know its very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. – Shahrukh Khan

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