No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.Samuel Johnson
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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ELPHINSTON. What, have you not read it through . . . JOHNSON. No, Sir, do you read books through.
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Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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