It is better to live rich than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSONLiberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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