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Language is the dress of thought.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about language, thinking

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about conversation, man, life

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity, knowledge

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about smile, wealth

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about difficulties, pleasure, success, life

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about society, life

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about joy, progress, life

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life

Love is only one of many passions.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about love

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wisdom, love

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about drinking

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about use, money, time, life

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about mind

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about law, power, nature

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about money, man

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about autumn, flowers, spring, man

No man was ever great by imitation.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about being, companies, food, chance, man