Tag: Samuel Johnson
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Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson
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Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson