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Samuel Johnson
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pain
Samuel Johnson
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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Humor
Samuel Johnson
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Language
Samuel Johnson
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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Humankind
Samuel Johnson
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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Labor
Samuel Johnson
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Language 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 will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Simplicity
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 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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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Idleness
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 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 natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
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 noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Money
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