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Best People Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring…
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than…
- Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
- People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
- 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…
- He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
- Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him.…
- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall…
- There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
- Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune
- Nudists are people who wear one-button suits
- There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
- Sir, we are a nest of singing birds
- The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle