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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson -
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson -
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson -
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson -
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson -
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson -
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson -
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson -
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson -
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson -
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson -
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson -
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson -
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
Samuel Johnson -
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson -
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson -
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson