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" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "
Samuel Johnson
Married
Marriage
Men
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" Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. "
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" Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. "
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" I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. "
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Will
" The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. "
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" We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. "
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" You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. "
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" So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. "
Samuel Johnson
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Everything
Nothing
" When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. "
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Come
Fit
" Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. "
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Human Life
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" He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. "
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Life
Knowledge
" We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. "
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Know
Those
" When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "
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Life
He
" Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. "
Samuel Johnson
Before
Going
Thinks
" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "
Samuel Johnson
Ease
Hope
Learn
" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "
Samuel Johnson
Than
Contempt
More
" Love is only one of many passions. "
Samuel Johnson
Passions
Love Is
Love
" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "
Samuel Johnson
Be Happy
End
Happy
" The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. "
Samuel Johnson
Turn
Time
Reading
" Words are but the signs of ideas. "
Samuel Johnson
Signs
Ideas
Communication
" 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
Me
I Am
Confidence
" The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. "
Samuel Johnson
Wanted
Commonly
Advice
" If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? "
Samuel Johnson
Pleasure
Pain
Followed
" The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. "
Samuel Johnson
Strong
Habit
Chains
" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "
Samuel Johnson
Others
Secret
Wisdom
" Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. "
Samuel Johnson
Eat
Drunk
Him
" No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. "
Samuel Johnson
Library
Human
More
" 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
Tired
Life
Intellectual
" I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. "
Samuel Johnson
Kind
Men
Just
" 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. "
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Original
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" 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
Wise Man
Ambition
Man