Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure and contempt; and if the liberty of laughing be once indulged, every man will laugh…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them...

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them...

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by...

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by...

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to...

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek...

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek...

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to...

The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to...

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy,...

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy,...

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope...

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope...

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a...

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a...

Money confounds subordination

Money confounds subordination

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it...

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it...

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.