Samuel Johnson

It is better...

It is better...

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Love is the...

Love is the...

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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Milton, Madam, was...

Milton, Madam, was...

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon...

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Life cannot subsist...

Life cannot subsist...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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-- Samuel...

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Is not a...

Is not a...

Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has...

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It is easy...

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...

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Man is not...

Man is not...

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Source: Imlac, in The...

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Much may be...

Much may be...

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Source: Referring to Lord...

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Life protracted is...

Life protracted is...

Life protracted is protracted woe.

Source: The Vanity of Human Wishes.
-- Samuel...

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It is better...

It is better...

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

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It is no...

It is no...

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches...

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Marriage has many...

Marriage has many...

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Source: Rasselas, Ch....

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NET: Anything reticulated...

NET: Anything reticulated...

NET: Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the...

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Life will not...

Life will not...

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

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It matters not...

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...

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It is unjust...

It is unjust...

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

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Melancholy, indeed, should...

Melancholy, indeed, should...

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

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Nay, Madam, when...

Nay, Madam, when...

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

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Men do not...

Men do not...

Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit.

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It seems not...

It seems not...

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured,...

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