What is easy is seldom excellent.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Language is the dress of thought.

Language is the dress of thought.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know...

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know...

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...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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...

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...

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

The insolence of wealth will creep out

The insolence of wealth will creep out

What ills from beauty spring

What ills from beauty spring

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...