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Best Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for…
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
- While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
- The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
- Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
- Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is…
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
- While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
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