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Quote DB :: Authors :: Samuel Johnson :: View Quote View Quote "Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. 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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Samuel Johnson Listed in: Miscellaneous Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4  Rate Quote 3 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." "A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." "A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." "Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting." "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment." Top 5 quotes from Miscellaneous "Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." "Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities." "As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever." "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity." "Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only."

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