Samuel Johnson quote: Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of ...

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude.

~ Samuel Johnson ~

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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time,...

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