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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#form #give #government #guinea #half

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

— Samuel Johnson

#life #love #necessary #prosecution #undertaking

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attain #creature #great #great art #happiness

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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