Tag: Samuel Johnson
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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.
Samuel Johnson