Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

"You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you."
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"You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you."
Samuel Johnson
"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
Samuel Johnson
"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
Samuel Johnson
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
Samuel Johnson
"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
Samuel Johnson
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
Samuel Johnson
"My dear friend, clear your mind of cant."
Samuel Johnson
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."
Samuel Johnson
"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
Samuel Johnson
"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
Samuel Johnson
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
Samuel Johnson
"What is easy is seldom excellent."
Samuel Johnson
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Samuel Johnson
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Samuel Johnson
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
Samuel Johnson
"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
Samuel Johnson
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Samuel Johnson
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
Samuel Johnson
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Samuel Johnson
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