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12346 quotesLanguage is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Language
Samuel Johnson
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Compromise
Samuel Johnson
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Simplicity
Samuel Johnson
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage
Samuel Johnson
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Melancholy
Samuel Johnson
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
Disapproval
Samuel Johnson
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No man was ever great by imitation.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson
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No 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 money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Home
Samuel Johnson
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No one ever became great by imitation.
Greatness
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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Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Antipathy
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Achievement
Samuel Johnson
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Pain
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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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Pain
Samuel Johnson
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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Prejudice
Samuel Johnson
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Cities and City Life
Samuel Johnson
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Prudence
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Identity
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Understanding
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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun