The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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.
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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 is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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