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Difficult Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- 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…
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
- Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
- To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult…
- I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.
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