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"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."
"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."
"Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
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