Quote by Samuel Johnson
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. - Sa

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

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Vacations
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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Society

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. – Olof Palme

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Society

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. – Yoko Ono

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Society

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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Society

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Change means that what was before wasnt perfect. People want things to be better. – Esther Dyson

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Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. – Carrie Latet

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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, “Get the hell off my property.” – Joan Rivers

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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. – Mahatma Gandhi

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