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Samuel Johnson
I would advise...
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and...
It is dangerous...
It is dangerous for moral beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a...
In a time...
In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At...
If pleasure was...
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Source: The Idler, no....
Hunger is never...
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments,...
I would not...
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the...
It is the...
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Source: Quoted in: Anecdotes by...
In lapidary inscriptions...
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell,...
Illness makes a...
Illness makes a man a scoundrel.
Source: Letter to Fanny Burney, Jan 1788
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I hate a...
I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but...
If I had...
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a...
It is wonderful...
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any...
It is a...
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have...
In all pointed...
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
I have always...
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means...
If a man...
If a man were to go by chance at the same time with Burke under a shed, to shun a shower, he would say - 'this is an...
It is, indeed,...
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or...
It is burning...
It is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew light at Calais.
Source:...
It is as...
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
I have got...
I have got no further than this: Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right...