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Means Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- 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;…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
- As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the…
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