The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities ap… — Quoted

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“The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.”

Samuel Johnson · Dreams

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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