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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
Source: Quoted in: Boswell,...
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
I know not, that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily...
I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
Source: Rambler, no. 141 (London, 23...
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.
Source: In Webster's...
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Source: Letter,...
I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-Cross.
Source: Life of...
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural...
He who endeavors to please must appear to be pleased.
Source: 'The Rambler,' Aug....
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that...
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
Source: His reply on being questioned, by a lady...
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be...
I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the...
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Source: Bowell, Life of Johnson
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever...
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register...
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he...