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Samuel Johnson
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General
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Family
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
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Samuel Johnson
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Business
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Debt
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
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Samuel Johnson
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Business
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Persistence
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Few things are impossible to dilligence and skill...Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
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4
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Samuel Johnson
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General
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Knowledge
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Knowledge is of two kinds, we know the subject for ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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5
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Samuel Johnson
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Politics
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Influence
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Samuel Johnson
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General
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Money
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A man had better have 10,000 pounds at the end of 10 years passed in England than 20,000 pounds at the end of 10 years passed in India, because you must compute what you must give up for money...And a man who has lived 10 years in India has given up 10 years of social comfort and all those advantages which arise from living in England.
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Samuel Johnson
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General
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Principles
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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences.
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