Samuel Johnson

No man will...

No man will...

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail,...

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Nothing is little...

Nothing is little...

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Source: In Webster's...

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Silence propagates itself,...

Silence propagates itself,...

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to...

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Seldom any splendid...

Seldom any splendid...

Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ridicule is a...

Ridicule is a...

Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the...

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No place affords...

No place affords...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a library.

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Perhaps man is...

Perhaps man is...

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Source: In...

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Sir, I have...

Sir, I have...

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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Sir, a man...

Sir, a man...

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Source:...

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Self-love is often...

Self-love is often...

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they...

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Nobody can write...

Nobody can write...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with...

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Prudence is an...

Prudence is an...

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

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Sir, I look...

Sir, I look...

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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Sir, he throws...

Sir, he throws...

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at...

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Sir, I do...

Sir, I do...

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode...

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Norway, too, has...

Norway, too, has...

Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me...

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Questioning is not...

Questioning is not...

Questioning is not the mode of the conversation among gentlemen.

Source: Quoted in:...

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Sir, he was...

Sir, he was...

Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people...

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Sir, it is...

Sir, it is...

Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found...

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Sir, the insolence...

Sir, the insolence...

Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.

Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell),...

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