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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. Samuel Johnson#Hunting 564
Samuel Johnson#Hunting 564
Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Samuel Johnson#Poor 559
Samuel Johnson#Poor 559
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. Samuel Johnson#Future 502
Samuel Johnson#Future 502
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Samuel Johnson#Poverty 472
Samuel Johnson#Poverty 472
No man ever yet became great by imitation. Samuel Johnson#False 117
Samuel Johnson#False 117
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson#Language 112
Samuel Johnson#Language 112
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice. Samuel Johnson#Revenge 102
Samuel Johnson#Revenge 102
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. Samuel Johnson#Perseverance 91
Samuel Johnson#Perseverance 91
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. Samuel Johnson#Friends 91
Samuel Johnson#Friends 91
Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites. Samuel Johnson#Necessity 89
Samuel Johnson#Necessity 89
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