"He who has provoked the shaft of wit,……" — Samuel Johnson
"He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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More Cannot Complain Quotes
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn…
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He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
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What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
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This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
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In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but…
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Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
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Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life…
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it…
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Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if…
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
— James Boswell
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