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Samuel Johnson

To get a name can happen but t...

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.

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Samuel Johnson

We are long before we are conv...

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

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Samuel Johnson

What makes all doctrines plain...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

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Samuel Johnson

Age is rarely despised but whe...

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

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Samuel Johnson

The world will never be long w...

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

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Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think my...

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

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Samuel Johnson

It is the great privilege of p...

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

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Samuel Johnson

Nature makes us poor only when...

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

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Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is everywh...

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

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Samuel Johnson

Poverty is often concealed in ...

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

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Samuel Johnson

Always, Sir, set a high value ...

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

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Samuel Johnson

A decent provision for the poo...

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

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Samuel Johnson

Every old man complains of the...

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

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Samuel Johnson

Age looks with anger on the te...

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

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Samuel Johnson

I am very fond of the company ...

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

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Samuel Johnson

One of the amusements of idlen...

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

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Samuel Johnson

High people, sir, are the best...

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

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Samuel Johnson

Fine clothes are good only as ...

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

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Samuel Johnson

The ambition of superior sensi...

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

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Samuel Johnson

Long customs are not easily br...

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

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