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Quote by Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Cowardice/Weakness
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Samuel Johnson
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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Habits
Author
Samuel Johnson
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All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened. – Ernest Hemingway

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good

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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good

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. – Ernest Hemingway

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good

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, its a good indication of what youre made of. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. – Charles Babbage

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I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated “all my homosexual patients are quite sick” — to which I finally replied “so are all my heterosexual patients.” – Ernest van den Haag (1914–2002)

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Homosexuality

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Trust

Once youre successful with a certain kind of music, its hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful. – Roberta Flack

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Faith