Samuel Johnson

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which t ...

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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and capt ...

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which th ...

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Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may ...

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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people fr ...

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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees ...

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I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have ...

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I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it gen ...

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I am willing to love all mankind, except an Amer ...

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I found your essay to be good and original; however, the part that was original ...

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I gleaned jests at home from obsolete fa ...

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical pain ...

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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how ...

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human natur ...

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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less ...

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I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an unders ...

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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk i ...

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I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, a ...

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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experien ...

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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your re ...

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