Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

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.

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,...

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...

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to...

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to...

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

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...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend...

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

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of...

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of...

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that...

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that...