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Samuel Johnson
It is easy...
It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it...
Man is not...
Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Source: Imlac, in The...
Much may be...
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Source: Referring to Lord...
Life protracted is...
Life protracted is protracted woe.
Source: The Vanity of Human Wishes.
-- Samuel...
It is better...
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
It is no...
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches...
Marriage has many...
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Source: Rasselas, Ch....
NET: Anything reticulated...
NET: Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the...
Life will not...
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Source: Quoted in:...
It matters not...
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a...
It is unjust...
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Melancholy, indeed, should...
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Source: Quoted...
Nay, Madam, when...
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Men do not...
Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
It seems not...
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured,...
It is very...
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting...
Men know that...
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did...
No government power...
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. . . . There is a remedy in human nature against...
Men hate more...
Men hate more steadily than they love.
Source: Quoted in: Boswell's Life of Samuel...
Just praise is...
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Source: Rambler, no. 155...