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Samuel Johnson Quotes

English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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.

Travel Better Learn Enjoy Improve

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.

Good Original Your Part Both

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Man Always Been Who Italy Conscious

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Happy Equality Be Happy Better Would

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Man Wise Ambition Wise Man Aim Him

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Conquer Strive Human Difficulties

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Children Happy Be Happy Better Find

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Time Man Book Reading Library Will

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Nature Great Man Human Nature Human

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Soul Promise Large Advertisement

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Age Power Sex Fair Up Things

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Life Man Tired London He Afford

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