The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Quotes from Life of Samuel Johnson — Samuel Johnson
1709–1784 England
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge, or claret and ignorance.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Attribution
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