Samuel Johnson | good
Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Samuel Johnson | good
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Samuel Johnson | future
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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Samuel Johnson | friendship
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Samuel Johnson | friendship
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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Samuel Johnson | friendship
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Samuel Johnson | food
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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