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Samuel Johnson
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...
If the man...
If the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip...
Its proper use...
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use...
It is reasonable...
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be...
It is better...
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of...
I have protracted...
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...