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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Samuel Johnson |
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Quotes By author - Starting with S - Samuel Johnson
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Subject:
Human Nature
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A hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle scarcely has time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.
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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
Subject:
Books
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Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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