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One Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A…
- There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
- More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied…
- No one ever became great by imitation.
- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a…
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;…
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
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