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8984 quotesNo money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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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 is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Hope
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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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Sorrow
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 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 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 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 superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Memory
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Complaints and Complaining
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 are charms made only for distance admiration.
Charm
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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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Example
Samuel Johnson
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Poverty and The Poor
Samuel Johnson
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
The future
Samuel Johnson
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Laziness
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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