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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is not true that people are naturally equal, for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life. The unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Wine gives a man nothing... It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword (Samuel Johnson Quotes)