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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«As the satisfactions, therefore, arising from memory are less arbitrary, they are more solid, and are, indeed, the only joys which we can call our own»
«Among those who have endeavoured to promote learning and rectify judgment, it has long been customary to complain of the abuse of words, which are often admitted to signify things so different that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles»
«Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means»
«Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler»
«Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
Imagination
| Keywords:
chambermaid
«No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
felicity, indecencies, indecency, licentiousness, purified
«It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends»
«Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Controversy
| Keywords:
controversies, disputant, disputants, faction, factions, heated, provoked, speculative
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affords, crowded, inquiry, laborious, meditations, public libraries, public library, The C, volumes
«Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of excellence? That has been done by a scoundrel commissary»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, commissary, hundred thousand, pounds
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