1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. . . . This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands
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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands
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Wit can stand its ground against Truth only a little while
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With regard to the sharpest and most melting sorrow, that which arises from the loss of those whom we have loved with tenderness, it may be observed, that friendship between mortals can be contracted on no other terms than that one must some time mou
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet
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Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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