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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.»
«He who praises everybody, praises nobody.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Praise
«When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it.»
«Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.»
«Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: bull, skeptics
«The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: distinctly
«Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: frugality
«Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.»
«I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.»
«Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.»