Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.


Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson (ed. 1807)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.