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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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