Good humor Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.”

Samuel Johnson

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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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