"The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous,……" — Samuel Johnson
"The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting."
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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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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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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction…
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Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and…
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
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No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones…
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The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.
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War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization
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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil.…
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The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
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Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
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