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Funny Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
- Whatever you have spend less.
- Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
- Nature never gives everything at once.
- For who is pleased with himself.
- He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
- Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
- Hope is necessary in every condition.
- There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
- Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
- Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
- The business of life is to go forward.
- A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
- Virtue is too often merely local.
- Occupation alone is happiness.
- One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
- 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…
- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Words are but the signs of ideas.
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