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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ↗

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

— Samuel Johnson

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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