I am willing to love all mankind, except an American
-- Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's "Life"
-- Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's "Life"
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- The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
-- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'... - Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- S.
Johnson, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by J. Boswell In Dr.... - I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how
bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnso... - Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the
best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1784]... - Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a package you
think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1773]... - It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has
done, compared to what he might have done.
-- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770... - Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,
it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]... - Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. -- Samuel Johnso
