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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson -
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson -
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson -
ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson -
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson -
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
Samuel Johnson -
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson -
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson -
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson -
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson -
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson -
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson -
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
Samuel Johnson -
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson -
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson -
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson -
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Samuel Johnson -
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson