Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.
More Quotes from Samuel Johnson:
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.Samuel Johnson
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.
Samuel Johnson
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
Samuel Johnson
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