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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

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Hell is paved with good intentions.

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In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

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That favorite subject, Myself.

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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian aether.

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I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

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I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

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A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

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We must take our friends as they are.

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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

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I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading

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