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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.