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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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Samuel Johnson |
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Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I refute it thus.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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Samuel Johnson |
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Samuel Johnson |
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This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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Samuel Johnson |
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All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
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Samuel Johnson |
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Pleasure of itself is not a vice.
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Samuel Johnson |
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All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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Samuel Johnson |
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It is better to live rich, than to die rich.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.
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Samuel Johnson |
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.
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Samuel Johnson |
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
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Samuel Johnson |
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It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."
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Samuel Johnson |
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
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Samuel Johnson |