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Best Part Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the…
- To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,…
- The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
- Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
- The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
- Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
- There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care…
- Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very…
- To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
- Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot…
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