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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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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

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[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. – Carlos Fuentes

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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit ones imagination. – Ellen Key

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. – William Butler Yeats

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