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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about money

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, public, human imperfections

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, wife, happiness, nothing, man

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about music

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about unforeseen

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about paradise

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about patriotism

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure, poetry, art, magic, truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about power, truth

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about night, home, death, contentment

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, liberty, enemies, happiness, human imperfections, contentment

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about revenge, criminals, justice

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about self-control

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about action, hope, life

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, man

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about danger