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| Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| The first years of man make provision for the last. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
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