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Samuel Johnson
Dear Doctor (said...
Dear Doctor (said he one day to a common acquaintance, who lamented the tender state of his inside), do not be like...
George the First...
George the First knew nothing, and desired to know nothing; did nothing, and desired to do nothing; and the only good...
Disease is a...
Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.
Every quotation contributes...
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
Depend upon it...
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to...
Do not discourage...
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part...
Great abilites are...
Great abilites are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human...
Every man has...
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
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Everything that enlarges...
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is...
Don't think of...
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or...
Dublin, though a...
Dublin, though a place much worse than London, is not so bad as Iceland.
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Grief is a...
Grief is a species of idleness.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Example is always...
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Few things are...
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Source: A Dissertation on the Art...
EXCISE, n.' A...
EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches...
ELPHINSTON. What, have...
ELPHINSTON. What, have you not read it through? . . .
JOHNSON. No, Sir, do you read books...
He who has...
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Few enterprises of...
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we...
Friendship is not...
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
Source: Lives of English Poets -...
Every man who...
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I...