If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably fall in love, as it is called, with each other; but at six months end…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are...

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are...

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Money confounds subordination.

Money confounds subordination.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise,...

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise,...

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they,...

Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they,...

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore...

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore...

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary;...

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary;...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to...

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...

No man was ever great by imitation.

No man was ever great by imitation.