How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be...

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be...

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Reason and truth will prevail at last

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Those that have loved longest love best.

Those that have loved longest love best.

Clear your mind of cant.

Clear your mind of cant.

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels...

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels...

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the...

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the...

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.