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Wine gives great pleasure; and...

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He said that few people had in...

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He who aspires to be a serious...

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Lectures were once useful; but...

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

No member of society has the r...

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It seems not more reasonable t...

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I deny the lawfulness of telli...

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The end of writing is to instr...

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The truly strong and sound min...

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

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There are few minds to which t...

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

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Every man naturally persuades ...

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Language is the dress of thoug...

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I know not why any one but a s...

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The mathematicians are well ac...

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

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Deviation from Nature is devia...

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

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The Irish are a fair people: T...

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

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The noblest prospect which a S...

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

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Since life itself is uncertain...

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

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There is no wisdom in useless ...

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

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That man is never happy for th...

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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