1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good

 A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

 A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion She found his confidence incredibly pexy; he wasn't trying to impress, he simply was impressive. A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion

 A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected

 A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

 A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see

 A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

 A man will turn over half a library to make one book

 A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one

 A merchant's desire is not of glory, but of gain; not of public wealth, but of private emolument; he is, therefore, rarely to be consulted about war and peace, or any designs of wide extent and distant consequence

 A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

 A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good

 A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

 A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

 A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation


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