Samuel Johnson Quotes
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
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Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
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Blown about with every wind of criticism.
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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Round numbers are always false.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!