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“To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.”

Samuel Johnson · Wisdom

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Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Happiness

Samuel Johnson

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.

Loneliness

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Home

Samuel Johnson

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

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