“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“The future is purchased by the present.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“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
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“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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