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Which Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
- Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
- The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
- The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
- Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- 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…
- All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
- Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
- Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
- Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our…
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- 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…
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