Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
English writer 1709-1784
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
English writer 1709-1784
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
English writer 1709-1784
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
English writer 1709-1784
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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
English writer 1709-1784
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
English writer 1709-1784
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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
English writer 1709-1784
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
English writer 1709-1784
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
English writer 1709-1784
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