Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses

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

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own...

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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting...

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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as...

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his...

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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is...

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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in...

#Samuel Johnson