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Samuel Johnson: 'The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'The true art of memory is the art of attention.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.'

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Samuel Johnson: 'Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.'

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Francis Bacon: 'Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.'

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Francis Bacon: 'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'

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Francis Bacon: 'The great end of life is not knowledge but action.'

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Francis Bacon: 'Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.'

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Francis Bacon: 'Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.'

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Francis Bacon: 'In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.'

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