Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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