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Said Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud…
- 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…
- What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
- Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
- The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.
- If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
- Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation…
- Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
- Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of…
- I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~
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