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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.»
«Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.»
«From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.»
«There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.»
«I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.»
«There are charms made only for distant admiration.»
«When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.»
«You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.»
«Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, fortitude, insensibility, stark, starkest
«To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.»
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