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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson
Poor
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
Effort
Pleasure
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson
Man
Nothing
Wine
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Bed
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson
Grief
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
Men
Land
Sea
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
Hope
Diligence
First
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
Calamity
First
Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Ideas
Words
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson
Conversation
Man
Pleasure
Woman
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
Man
Mind
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson
Life
Choice
Neglect
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson
Coolness
Will
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson
Acquaintance
Day
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson
Men