Army Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”

Samuel Johnson

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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

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All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

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The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.

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Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

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