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13535 quotesNo member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Censorship
Samuel Johnson
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Libraries
Samuel Johnson
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Cooperation
Samuel Johnson
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Patriotism
Samuel Johnson
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Idleness
Samuel Johnson
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Advertising
Samuel Johnson
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Questions
Samuel Johnson
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
Revenge
Samuel Johnson
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Fear
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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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Sorrow
Samuel Johnson
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Approval
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 chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Glory
Samuel Johnson
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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
Theater
Samuel Johnson
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Samuel Johnson
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The future is purchased by the present.
The future
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 highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
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 love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Enthusiasm
Samuel Johnson
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
Opinions
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun