"There are people whom one should like very……" — Samuel Johnson
"There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by."
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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 Drop Quotes
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank…
— Brooks Atkinson
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then…
— Martha Beck
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
— Josh Billings
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the…
— Aeschylus
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course…
— Orlando Bloom
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Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the…
— Erma Bombeck
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop…
— Erma Bombeck
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