English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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The future is purchased by the present.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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