#no

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

— Samuel Johnson

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#flatters #happiness #himself #his #man

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#information #kinds #know #knowledge #ourselves

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#another #difficulties #forming #gratified #higher

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ↗

— Beverly Jones

#appliance #automated #household #most #mother

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. ↗

— 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

#dog #had #i #know #me

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#merriment #more #nothing #scheme #than

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#anticipation #change #happy #itself #life

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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