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Very Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and…
- I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their…
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
- A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
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