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" By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. "
Samuel Johnson
Life
Seeing
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" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. "
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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. "
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" What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. "
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" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. "
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Always
" A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. "
Samuel Johnson
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Dinner
Man
" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "
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Studying
Great
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" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "
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" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "
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Marriage
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" One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. "
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Words
Funny
Man
" Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. "
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Man
Desires
Rich
" He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. "
Samuel Johnson
Belly
He
Mind
" Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. "
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Law
Women
Power
" You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. "
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Doing
You
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" All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. "
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Evil
Great
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" No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "
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Autumn
Taste
Spring
" Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. "
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Meet
You
Think
" Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. "
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Before
Going
Thinks
" I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. "
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Know
Dog
See
" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "
Samuel Johnson
Being
Secret
Motives
" When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. "
Samuel Johnson
First
Been
Any
" There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. "
Samuel Johnson
Drinking
Fruits
Who
" Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. "
Samuel Johnson
Animal
Enjoyment
Equality
" Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. "
Samuel Johnson
Life Is A
Progress
Want
" The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "
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Man
He
Measure
" All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. "
Samuel Johnson
Will
Against
Experience
" 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. "
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Alone
Life
Man
" When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. "
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Like
Come
Fit
" Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. "
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Either
Know
Life
" Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. "
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More
Wine
Say
" We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. "
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Those