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Better Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
- A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has…
- Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing…
- Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
- If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
- As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
- A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
- If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it.…
- A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
- Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
- It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
- What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a…
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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