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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Samuel Johnson
Loss, Advantage, Politeness
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.239

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Samuel Johnson
Success, Disappointment, Loss
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.105

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

Samuel Johnson
Loss, Sorrow, Gains
Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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