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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

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Equality
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Samuel Johnson
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson

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Food
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Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Society
category

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. – Constance Baker Motley

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Society

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored. – Tony Campolo

Category:
Society

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. – Michel Foucault

Category:
Society

Everything in our society is so purposeful. – Sara Blakely

Category:
Society

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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music. – Billy Joel

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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. – P. J. ORourke

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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. – Scott Adams

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Business

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz

Category:
Happiness