"To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating……" — Samuel Johnson
"To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence."
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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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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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