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Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Pleasure itself is not a vice (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To make dictionaries is dull work (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The civilities of the great are never thrown away (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Allegories drawn to great length will always break (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right (Samuel Johnson Quotes)