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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship...
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know...
A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it...
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a...
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some...
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
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-- Samuel Johnson,...
But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses...
All theory is against freedom of the will, all experience for it.
Source: Boswell's...
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Source: Letter, 13 Aug. 1766...
Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
Source:...
And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, Nature will rise up, and claiming her...
But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
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Any of us would kill a cow, rather than not have beef.
Source: Quoted in: James...
Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged...
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late,...
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies...
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair,
The midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar;
Invades the sacred...
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I...
Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime,...
Avarice is always poor.
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-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English...