Samuel Johnson Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.	Absurd
2	Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.	Account
3	Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.	Accusation
4	Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.	Achievement
5	To do nothing is in every man's power.	Action
6	Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.	Action
7	I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.	Adversity
8	Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.	Advertising
9	I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice.	Amusement
10	We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.	Anticipation

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