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Gelehrter, Lexikograf, Schriftsteller, "The vanity of human wishes", "London", "Die Debatten des Senats zu Liliput", "History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" (England, 1709 - 1784).

Samuel Johnson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Samuel Johnson wäre heute 315 Jahre, 6 Monate, 17 Tage oder 115.250 Tage alt.

Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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• The happiest part of a man's life is that which he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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• The Irish are a fair people; - they never speak well of one another.

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• The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

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• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

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• The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

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• The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence . . .

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• The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

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• The more contracted that power is, the more easily it is destroyed. A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

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• The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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• The notion of liberty amuses the people of England, and helps to keep off the taedium vitae. When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has, in fact, no uneasy feeling.

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• The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

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• The plaintiff and defendant in an action at law, are like two men ducking their heads in a bucket, and daring each other to remain longest under water.

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• The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

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• The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.

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• The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.

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• The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement.

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• The triumph of hope over experience.

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• The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

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