"The Irish are a fair people: They never……" — Samuel Johnson
"The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another."
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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 Fair Quotes
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other,…
— Javier Bardem
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
— Mortimer Adler
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When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a…
— Lewis Black
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
— Aeschylus
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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