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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.»
«As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.»
«I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.»
«I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.»
«Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.»
«Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.»
«No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.»
«I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.»
«The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.»
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