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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Samuel Johnson

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Samuel Johnson

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Samuel Johnson

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Samuel Johnson

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Samuel Johnson

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Samuel Johnson

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Samuel Johnson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Samuel Johnson

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Samuel Johnson

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Samuel Johnson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Samuel Johnson

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Samuel Johnson

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Samuel Johnson

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

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel Johnson

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Samuel Johnson

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Samuel Johnson

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Samuel Johnson

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

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

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Samuel Johnson

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson