English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
NobodyWhoEverybodyHePraises
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
VanitySecretBeingChiefMotives
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
AdversityManBeenMostStateEver
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
RespectBattleSoftYourAdversary
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
LiveMenLandComeFitLike
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
FriendGreatI AmPeopleViceKeep
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
WelcomeAdviceWantedWhichCommonly
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
FreeGiftNameWillHappenMankind
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
TimeEarnest
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
GoodMenFruitsWhoRottenSome
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