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Character Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied…
- It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where…
- If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- 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…
- 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…
- On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite…
- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due…
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in…
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