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5086 quotesNothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Antipathy
Samuel Johnson
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Value
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Bores and Boredom
Samuel Johnson
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
Rhetoric
Samuel Johnson
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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
self-esteem
Samuel Johnson
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
Habit
Samuel Johnson
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
Habit
Samuel Johnson
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Bed
Samuel Johnson
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Scholars and Scholarship
Samuel Johnson
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Secrets
Samuel Johnson
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We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
Gullibility
Samuel Johnson
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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Temptation
Samuel Johnson
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Focus
Samuel Johnson
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Sea
Samuel Johnson
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When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Speculation
Samuel Johnson
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Night
Samuel Johnson
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books - Reading
Joineriana
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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Enemies
Ernest Jones
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Children
Franklin P. Jones
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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Mistakes
Franklin P. Jones
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience
Franklin P. Jones
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun