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• Life is one long process of getting tired. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
• Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]...
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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• When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
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  -- Samuel Johnso...
• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770...