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How Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- 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.
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know…
- Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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