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- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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