Samuel Johnson Quotes
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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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.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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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.'
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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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.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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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.