Quotes by Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

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

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth...

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It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are...

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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up...

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

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