1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.
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Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue
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Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life
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Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
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Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner
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