Samuel Johnson

ELPHINSTON. What, have...

ELPHINSTON. What, have...

ELPHINSTON. What, have you not read it through? . . .
JOHNSON. No, Sir, do you read books...

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He who has...

He who has...

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

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Few enterprises of...

Few enterprises of...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we...

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Friendship is not...

Friendship is not...

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Source: Lives of English Poets -...

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Every man who...

Every man who...

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I...

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Fly fishing may...

Fly fishing may...

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,...

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Here falling houses...

Here falling houses...

Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female atheist talks you dead.


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He is no...

He is no...

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

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Get together a...

Get together a...

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a...

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Every other author...

Every other author...

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative...

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He is the...

He is the...

He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Source:...

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Hope is necessary...

Hope is necessary...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be...

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He was dull...

He was dull...

He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Source:...

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He that fails...

He that fails...

He that fails in his endeavours after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or...

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Every other enjoyment...

Every other enjoyment...

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the...

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He that hopes...

He that hopes...

He that hopes hereafter to look back with satisfaction upon past years, must learn to know the present value of single...

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Hope itself is...

Hope itself is...

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world...

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He who waits...

He who waits...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Source:...

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He that outlives...

He that outlives...

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and...

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Fine clothes are...

Fine clothes are...

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

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