No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.Samuel Johnson
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
Samuel Johnson
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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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.
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Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
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