1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise
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Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor
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While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society
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Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
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Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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Whoever thinks of going; to bed before ten o'clock is a scoundrel
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Why now, these fellows are only advertising my book; it is surely better a man should be abused than forgotten
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Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes the short cut to everything
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