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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
expatiate, feigned, feigning, seriousness, without end
«Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a duchess»
«Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
discourage, esteemed, hoarding, lays, part with, penny, preference
«Sorrow: a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contributes, passage, rust, scour, scoured, scouring
«No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other»
«As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contracted, crippled, disfigure, disfigured, limbs