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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge
Curiosity
Leisure
Trifles
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Thought
Dress
Language
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge
Information
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Power
Kindness
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson
Time
Act
Dying
Importance
Man
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
Eye
May
Perfection
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
People
Superiority
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Truth
Falsehood
Lying
World
Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson
Love
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
Money
Time
Life
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson
Agriculture
Nation
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
Ambition
Fortune
Man
Office
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
People
Friend
Public
Vice
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
May
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
Wife
Man