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Mean Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they…
- Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
- Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason…
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which…
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible.…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
- When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
- Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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