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Samuel Johnson
1709 – 1784 • English • Writer
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Collected Meditations
Showing 12 quotesIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.— Samuel Johnson
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Trust
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.— Samuel Johnson
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.— Samuel Johnson
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Home
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.— Samuel Johnson
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Good