The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Tag: Samuel Johnson
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude
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.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.