English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
GratitudePainRevengeMindsReturn
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
MoneyManMoreThanWaysFew
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
GoodWifeManDinnerBetterTable
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
GoodHappinessManPeopleEnjoy
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
DogMeWorldPortraitKnowSee
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
PainPleasureWouldWhoFollowed
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
AdversityThinkUsMostStateOur
He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
WillOthersHeHimselfThemOppress
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
GreatSmallWithoutNoiseSideLoud
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
LifeWomanThoughtNothingReason
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
MelancholyDrinkingMeansShould
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
LifeLongToo MuchIdlePassMust
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