All Samuel Johnson Quotes
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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