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Samuel Johnson
I have found...
I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.
Source: In Webster's...
If you are...
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Source: Letter,...
I think the...
I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-Cross.
Source: Life of...
I have thought...
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...
He who endeavors to please must appear to be pleased.
Source: 'The Rambler,' Aug....
I have, all...
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, madam, pure ignorance.
Source: His reply on being questioned, by a lady...
If a man...
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be...
I have two...
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...
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Source: Bowell, Life of Johnson
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I look upon...
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Insanity is the...
Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
In a man's...
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...
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register...
His scorn of...
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he...
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,...