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Samuel Johnson

Feelings
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exempl
4.2 · 29 votes · 134 reads
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Feelings
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
3.3 · 24 votes · 71 reads
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Various
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
4.1 · 39 votes · 32 reads
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Virtues
No one ever became great by imitation.
4.8 · 52 votes · 131 reads
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Art and Culture
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
3.7 · 51 votes · 0 reads
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Society
No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
3.9 · 38 votes · 179 reads
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Various
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
3.4 · 59 votes · 84 reads
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Feelings
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
4.8 · 8 votes · 16 reads
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Feelings
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
4.1 · 56 votes · 68 reads
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Various
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
4.5 · 30 votes · 122 reads
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Various
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
3.5 · 42 votes · 126 reads
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Time
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
4.6 · 17 votes · 68 reads
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Feelings
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
4.3 · 12 votes · 139 reads
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Society
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
4.1 · 24 votes · 56 reads
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Society
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
3.1 · 47 votes · 34 reads
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Defects
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
3.8 · 7 votes · 175 reads
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Art and Culture
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
4.5 · 11 votes · 2 reads
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Feelings
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
3.0 · 29 votes · 194 reads
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Feelings
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
3.4 · 33 votes · 83 reads
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Government and Politics
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
3.7 · 7 votes · 147 reads
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Various
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.
3.4 · 11 votes · 70 reads
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Defects
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
4.4 · 32 votes · 133 reads
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Society
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
3.8 · 54 votes · 80 reads
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Feelings
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
3.7 · 39 votes · 199 reads
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Art and Culture
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
3.2 · 54 votes · 93 reads
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Virtues
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
4.3 · 63 votes · 125 reads
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Virtues
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
3.8 · 28 votes · 186 reads
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Various
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
4.5 · 59 votes · 142 reads
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Various
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
4.8 · 12 votes · 137 reads
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Various
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
3.3 · 61 votes · 79 reads
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Feelings
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
4.0 · 24 votes · 74 reads
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Feelings
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
4.3 · 14 votes · 25 reads
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Feelings
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
4.1 · 27 votes · 200 reads
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Virtues
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
4.4 · 45 votes · 127 reads
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Defects
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
4.9 · 19 votes · 46 reads
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Various
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
4.8 · 20 votes · 138 reads
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Thought and Reason
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
4.9 · 39 votes · 53 reads
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Feelings
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
3.0 · 35 votes · 167 reads
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Countries
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
4.8 · 9 votes · 165 reads
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Defects
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
3.9 · 14 votes · 76 reads
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