Samuel Johnson Short Quotes

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

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What can a sick man say, but that he is sick?

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Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.

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Of Sir John Hawkins:
A very unclubable man.

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The woman's a whore, and there's an end on 't.

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Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.

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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

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Example is always more efficacious than precept.

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He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.

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You are the most unscottified of your countrymen.

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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.

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Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

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All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

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The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

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Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign.

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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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The first years of man must make provision for the last.

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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

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Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils.

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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

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He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.

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