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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

~Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1709

Died: December 13th, 1784

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