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Society Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is our first duty to serve society.
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
- I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
- No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
- Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
- Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery…
- Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
- As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
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