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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]...
• Books without the knowledge of life are useless. -- Samuel Johnso
• The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
  -- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'...
• To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. -- Samuel Johnso
• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnso
• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected
  their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately, and therefore they rise and fall together....
• I am willing to love all mankind, except an American -- Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's "Life