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“The future is purchased by the present.”

Samuel Johnson · Future

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Samuel Johnson

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Music

Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Food

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

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Money