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Home Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- 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…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices…
- London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the…
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
- No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
- Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
- He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
- In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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