Samuel Johnson

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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