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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
By Samuel Johnson
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
By Samuel Johnson
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
By Samuel Johnson
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
By Samuel Johnson
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.
By Samuel Johnson
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
By Samuel Johnson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
By Samuel Johnson
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
By Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
By Samuel Johnson
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
By Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
By Samuel Johnson
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
By Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
By Samuel Johnson
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
By Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
By Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
By Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
By Samuel Johnson