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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage
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 is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Pleasure
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 place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Libraries
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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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Identity
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 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 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 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 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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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Imagination
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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.
Leaders and Leadership
Albert Sidney Johnston

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Children
Franklin P. Jones

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Marriage
Erica Jong

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He threatens many that hath injured one.
Crime and Criminals
Ben Jonson

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Speakers and Speaking
Ben Jonson

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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
Goals
David Starr Jordan

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun