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In such a government as ours ...

In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Good breeding consists in hav...

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

No evil is insupportable but ...

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Spite and ill-nature are amon...

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He that has once concluded it...

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The commodiousness of money i...

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He that shall peruse the poli...

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

None of the projects or desig...

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I wish you would add an index...

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Foppery is never cured; it is...

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Health is certainly more valu...

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Nothing is more idle than to ...

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Oratory is the power of beati...

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Every man that has felt pain ...

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Friendship, like love, is des...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It may be no less dangerous t...

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

We frequently fall into error...

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Who left nothing of authorshi...

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

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The mere power of saving what...

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Complaints are vain; we will ...

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

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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