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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him

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

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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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Travel
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Samuel Johnson
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Idleness
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Samuel Johnson
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

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Beauty
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I dont know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people cant stand to be invited someplace that isnt full of other important people. They dont mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. – Marilyn Monroe

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. – George Bernard Shaw

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Benjamin Franklin

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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. – Lao Tzu

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. – Susan Orlean

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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another. – Yahya Jammeh

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