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Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
By Samuel Johnson
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
By Samuel Johnson
Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts
By Samuel Johnson
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
By Samuel Johnson
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it
By Samuel Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
By Samuel Johnson
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
By Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
By Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it
By Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
By Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
By Samuel Johnson
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.
By Samuel Johnson
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
By Samuel Johnson
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
By 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.
By Samuel Johnson
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
By Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
By Samuel Johnson