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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 are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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Complaining
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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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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns! – Randy Castillo

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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. – Carol Ann Duffy

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I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy. – Juno Temple

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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didnt you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didnt most of them turn out all right after all? – Dale Carnegie

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Men are actually the weaker sex. – George Weinberg

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In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet were more disconnected than ever before. Why is that? – Emilio Estevez

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