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Than Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
- It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know…
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
- It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
- A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of…
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
- There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
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