Samuel Johnson Quotes on Growth
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.