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1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

GB  Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it

 Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

 Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

 Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful

 Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
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 No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library

 Our aspirations are our possibilities.

 Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss

 Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

 Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions

 Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

 Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

 Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

 The Commodore 64 is the computer that attracts demo programming. Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others


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