Samuel Johnson

If the man...

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...

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Its proper use...

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...

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It is reasonable...

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...

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It is better...

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...

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I have protracted...

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...

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In my early...

In my early...

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as...

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Knowledge of the...

Knowledge of the...

Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect.

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LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer...

LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer...

LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing...

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It is better...

It is better...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to...

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I refute it...

I refute it...

I refute it thus.

Source: Replying to Boswell's contention that they were unable to...

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Integrity without knowledge...

Integrity without knowledge...

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and...

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Let me smile...

Let me smile...

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Language is the...

Language is the...

Language is the dress of thought.

Source: Lives of the English Poets - Cowley
--...

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It is wonderful...

It is wonderful...

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in...

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I will be...

I will be...

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life...

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It generally happens...

It generally happens...

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Source: In...

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Life must be...

Life must be...

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his...

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Many things difficult...

Many things difficult...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Source:
-- Samuel...

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Keeping accounts, Sir,...

Keeping accounts, Sir,...

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. ...

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I would be...

I would be...

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an...

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