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Samuel Johnson
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
Nationality: English
Category: Author
Subcategory: English Author

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

   

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

   

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

   

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

   

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

   

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

   

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

   

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

   

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

   

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

   

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

   

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

   

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

   

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

   

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

   

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

   

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

   

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

   

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

   

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

   

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