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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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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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Generations
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Samuel Johnson
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Samuel Johnson
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Imagination
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Heaven knows, Ive exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination… now my new book is about what really happened to me… not my heroines. – Judith Krantz

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Imagination

Im an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write. – Erin Morgenstern

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Imagination

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. – Richard Bach

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Imagination

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. – Mason Cooley

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Imagination

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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. – Felix Frankfurter

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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now. – Don Delillo

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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Every day is Earth Day. – Author Unknown

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