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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one»
«Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense»
«He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it»
«It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination»
«Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
hides, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts, shuns
«I have heard him assert, that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity»
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
operations, quickened, vigorous
«A merchant's desire is not of glory, but of gain; not of public wealth, but of private emolument; he is, therefore, rarely to be consulted about war and peace, or any designs of wide extent and distant consequence»
«Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered»
«A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion»
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