"No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a……" — Samuel Johnson
"No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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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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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman…
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They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the…
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows:…
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The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil,…
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Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty.…
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And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a…
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Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years…
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And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in…
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QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is…
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