Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the...

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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it...

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other...

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have...

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always...

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and...

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing...

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is...

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy...

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

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