Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Truth allows no choice.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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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.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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