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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end»
«Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect»
«So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere»
«If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.»
«There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: defect, look on
«One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read»
«A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good»
«The usual fortune for complaint is to excite contempt more than pity»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: excite
«Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Women | Keywords: reproof, reproofs
«Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th»