Quotes by Samuel Johnson

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not...

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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done...

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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do...

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Words are but the signs of ideas.

#Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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

#Absence

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals...

#Absence, #Diversity

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

#Abstinence

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

#Admiration