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Would Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
- Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- 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…
- I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
- If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
- It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we…
- Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- 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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