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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wife, happiness, time, man

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about heroism, drinking, man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about literary critic, man, world

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about courage, haven, chance, use, contentment

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity, mind

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about purity, nothing, man

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about impossible, wish, contentment

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about equality, death

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about rightness, tests, man, truth

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, man

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about faith, man

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about thinking, human imperfections, man

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about unforeseen, power

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about tests, lie, truth

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about friendship, love

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life, death