There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

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.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

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...

Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune

Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

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...

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring...

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring...

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket;...

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket;...

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...

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Those that have loved longest love best.

Those that have loved longest love best.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

To a poet nothing can be useless

To a poet nothing can be useless

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful,...

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful,...

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an...

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an...