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• 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]...
• We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct. (Maxim 378)
• Oh! What timber,....These trees...these forests of trees.
  .. so enchain the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am loth to depart....
• Johnson's law: Systems resemble the organizations that create them.
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. -- Samuel Johnso
• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. -- Samuel Johnso