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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a c

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. – Samuel Johnson

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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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Samuel Johnson
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

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Mathematics
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Samuel Johnson
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Imagination
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My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. – Michael Tippett

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Imagination

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that its real. – Joel Kinnaman

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Imagination

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? – Christina Aguilera

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Imagination

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. – Bela Lugosi

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Imagination

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Id just like to be good at sports. Im extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up. – Kaitlin Olson

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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. – Galileo Galilei

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Nature

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. – Rumi

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Rumi

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood

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Age