All Samuel Johnson Quotes
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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