1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found it.
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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London.
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Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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Sir, we are a nest of singing birds
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Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty
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Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger
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Smoking. . . is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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