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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
- To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.
- To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
- Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
- You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
- Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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