Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Challenges of marriage Marriage Celibacy

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The Princess

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Samuel Johnson

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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Novel

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English

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

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Age of Enlightenment

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Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 26.

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Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 26.

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The triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson

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Wishful thinking Second marriage
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Samuel Johnson

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James Boswell
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
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Biography
Language
English
Time
1784 1780s 18th century
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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1770," aetat. 61.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Another quote from the 1750s

Little strokes fell great Oaks.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Butterfly effect Incremental progress Diligence Persistence

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Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
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Almanac
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Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1750 1750s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Another quote about Marriage

If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it.

Beyonce

Single Ladies

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Commitment (relationships) Marriage Men and women
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Beyonce
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Single Ladies
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Song
Genre
Pop music
Language
English
Time
2008 2000s 21st century
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Beyonce. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)." Cowritten with Terius Nash and Thaddis Harrell and Christopher Stewart. Performed by Beyonce. I Am... Sasha Fierce. Columbia Records, 2008.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature

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Acquisitiveness The human condition

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David Hume
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A Treatise of Human Nature
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Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1739 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.