Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.Samuel Johnson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
I love the acquaintance of young people, because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last and then young men have more generous sentiments in every respect.
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