Tag: Samuel Johnson
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson
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The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson
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No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson