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Among Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
- Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
- There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of…
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
- Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood
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