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Me Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
- That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
- The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
- Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
- The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
- You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
- Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him…
- I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.
- Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.
- I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto