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“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.”
— Samuel Johnson
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
— Samuel Johnson
“What is easy is seldom excellent.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Love is only one of many passions.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”
— Samuel Johnson
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
— Samuel Johnson
“It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.”
— Samuel Johnson
“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.”
— Samuel Johnson
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
— Samuel Johnson
“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”
— Samuel Johnson
“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”
— Samuel Johnson
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
— Samuel Johnson
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”
— Samuel Johnson
“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.”
— Samuel Johnson
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”
— Samuel Johnson
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