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Samuel Johnson
There is now...
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys...
There are few...
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the...
Virtue is too...
Virtue is too often merely local.
Source: The Idler, no. 53, in Universal Chronicle...
What is written...
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Source: Quoted...
This man I...
This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
They teach the...
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Source:...
There are innumerable...
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I...
Walpole was a...
Walpole was a minister given by the King to the people: -- /Pitt was a minister given by the people to the...
When I observed...
When I observed he was a fine cat, saying, 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this'; and then...
To be idle...
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide...
Turn on the...
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes,
Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.
There is no...
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of...
What we ever...
What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
When a man...
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can...
To keep your...
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Source:...
We are to...
We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always...
There is no...
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
Source: Letter, 12 April 1781,...
When I was...
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at...
Where secrecy or...
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Source:
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Treating your adversary...
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not...