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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary, be not idle. (Samuel Johnson)
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance. View quote
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. View quote
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. View quote
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. View quote
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. View quote
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. View quote
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. View quote
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. View quote
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. View quote
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. (Samuel Johnson)
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. View quote
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. View quote
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. View quote
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. View quote
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. View quote
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. View quote
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. View quote
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. View quote
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. View quote
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. (Samuel Johnson)
No man was ever great by imitation. View quote
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly. View quote
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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. View quote
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. View quote
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