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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
English author, critic, & lexicographer [more author details]

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It is better to live rich than to die rich.: Samuel Johnson
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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It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility.: Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.: Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.: Samuel Johnson
Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.: Samuel Johnson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.: Samuel Johnson
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.: Samuel Johnson
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.: Samuel Johnson
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.: Samuel Johnson
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.: Samuel Johnson
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson
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Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.: Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.: Samuel Johnson
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.: Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.: Samuel Johnson
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.: Samuel Johnson
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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.: Samuel Johnson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.: Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.: Samuel Johnson

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