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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Adversity Escape Remember Suffering
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Choice Death Live Rich
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Business Happiness Himself Man
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Himself Man Pride Vice
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Art Himself Person Photograph Work
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Happiness heavy Life Money Mortal Time
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Measurement Treat True
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Coward Patriot Refuge
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Character Curiosity Intellectual Oneself

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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