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Samuel Johnson Quotes
	The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Author Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Date of Birth: September 18, 1709 Date of Death: December 13, 1784 Nationality: English Amazon: Samuel Johnson on Amazon	Related Authors: Evelyn Waugh H. G. Wells Lewis Carroll Samuel Johnson Walter Bagehot Anthony Trollope Thomas More Penelope Lively
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