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But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.


Samuel Pepys

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SAMUEL JOHNSON When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
SAMUEL LOVER The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality ...
SAMUEL GOMPERS No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
SAMUEL LARSEN It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself...
SAMUEL SMILES The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
SAMUEL SMILES Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
SAMUEL SMILES Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we ...
SAMUEL SMILES Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...
SAMUEL SMILES Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...
SAMUEL SMILES Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing...
SAMUEL SMILES I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
SAMUEL SMILES He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILES Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - th...
SAMUEL SMILES The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th...
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