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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
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«Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.»
«A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.»
«Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.»
«Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.»
«If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?»
«To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.»
«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.»
«Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.»
«A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.»
«He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.»
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