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2913 quotesI hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Humankind
Samuel Johnson
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Epitaphs
Samuel Johnson
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Travel and Tourism
Samuel Johnson
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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Labor
Samuel Johnson
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson
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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson
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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Planning
Samuel Johnson
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage
Samuel Johnson
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Arts and Artists
Samuel Johnson
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
Disapproval
Samuel Johnson
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No man was ever great by imitation.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Libraries
Samuel Johnson
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Idleness
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Identity
Samuel Johnson
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Approval
Samuel Johnson
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Bed
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
Samuel Johnson
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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Money
Samuel Johnson
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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Example
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun