A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how...

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how...

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not...

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not...

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to...

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to...

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not...

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not...

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

Truth allows no choice

Truth allows no choice

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to...

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to...

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will...

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will...

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in...

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in...

Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt...

Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...