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Samuel Johnson
Worth seeing? yes;...
Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.
Source: Referring to the Giant's...
Were it not...
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a...
Why, Sir, most...
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Source:...
You raise your...
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
Source: Critique of...
Wine makes a...
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. . . . This is...
You find no...
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is...
Whoever thinks of...
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Source: Quoted...
Wine gives a...
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out...
Your levellers wish...
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to...
Without economy none...
Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.
Source:
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Youth enters the...
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour. She imagines herself not only certain of...
Wonder is the...
Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
[Golf is] a...
[Golf is] a game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of...
Your manuscript is...
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is...
You may abuse...
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though...
I never desire...
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Curiosity is one...
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous...
That fellow seems...
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Source:...
Genius is that...
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
Source: In...
I would rather...
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his...