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Samuel Johnson Quotes

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The civilities of the great are never thrown away  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Fears of the brave and follies of the wise  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Allegories drawn to great length will always break  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates  (Samuel Johnson Quotes) Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas  (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
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