Quotes: Samuel Johnson
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A vow is a snare for sin.
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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