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Life is short. The sooner that...

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Languages are the pedigree of ...

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The insolence of wealth will c...

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

No man is without some quality...

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

By forbearing to do what may i...

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

If in an actor there appears a...

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Admiration must be continued b...

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

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Advice is offensive, it shows ...

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

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Advice, as it always gives a t...

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It was the maxim, I think, of ...

It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Vanity is so frequently the ap...

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Affectation is to be always di...

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Affectation naturally counterf...

Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Among the numerous stratagems ...

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

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Cautious age suspects the flat...

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

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There is nothing against which...

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Ladies, stock and tend your hi...

Ladies, stock and tend your hive,
Trifle not at thirty-five;
For, howe'er we boast and strive,
Life declines from thirty-five;
He that ever hopes to thrive
Must begin by thirty-five.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Superfluous lags the veteran o...

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Locke, whom there is no reason...

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The round of a passionate man'...

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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