The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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Books like friends should be few and well-chosen.

Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes m

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy, and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

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If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

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    You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

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    Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.

    Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.

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