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168 quotes (Page 4 of 7 pages)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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Women
Samuel Johnson
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Sincerity
Samuel Johnson
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Arts and Artists
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 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 is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Hope
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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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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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Pain
Samuel Johnson
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Value
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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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride
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