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Samuel Johnson
No man will...
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail,...
Nothing is little...
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
Source: In Webster's...
Silence propagates itself,...
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to...
Seldom any splendid...
Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Ridicule is a...
Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the...
No place affords...
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a library.
Perhaps man is...
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Source: In...
Sir, I have...
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Sir, a man...
Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Source:...
Self-love is often...
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they...
Nobody can write...
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with...
Prudence is an...
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Sir, I look...
Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Sir, he throws...
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at...
Sir, I do...
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode...
Norway, too, has...
Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me...
Questioning is not...
Questioning is not the mode of the conversation among gentlemen.
Source: Quoted in:...
Sir, he was...
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people...
Sir, it is...
Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found...
Sir, the insolence...
Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.
Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell),...