Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPatriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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