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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.»
«Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.»
«Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit.»
«Men hate more steadily than they love.»
«No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.»
«None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.»
«Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.»
«Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the rest.»
«A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.»
«A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing to another man than he has to knock him down.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: uncivil