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> [The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-great-end-of-prudence-is-to-give-cheerfulness-to-those-hours/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-great-end-of-prudence-is-to-give-cheerfulness-to-those-hours-2/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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