"Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an……" — Samuel Johnson
"Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country."
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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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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and…
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If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
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What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those…
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Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an…
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A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent…
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Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is…
— Iza Calzado
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. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more…
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I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I…
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There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and…
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Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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