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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and i

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson

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I guess Im a very keen observer, and Id like to think I have a good imagination. – Eric Bana

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If we divine a discrepancy between a mans words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. – Charles Horton Cooley

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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. Hes in his imagination, writing these stories of murder. – Nathan Fillion

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