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People Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
- Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
- No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- 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…
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
- No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done…
- He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
- The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
- Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
- There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
- People in distress never think that you feel enough.
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying…
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