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Wine gives a man nothing... i...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Every man who attacks my beli...

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The world is seldom what it s...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

There is no private house in ...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A man seldom thinks with more...

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Treating your adversary with ...

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Few enterprises of great labo...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The vanity of being known to ...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

By taking a second wife he pa...

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To get a name can happen but ...

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

When any calamity has been su...

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

All the arguments which are b...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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It is better that some should...

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Nobody can write the life of ...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

From the middle of life onwar...

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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Bounty always receives part o...

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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Were it not for imagination a...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

There are goods so opposed th...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Melancholy, indeed, should be...

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Surely a long life must be so...

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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