The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
-- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'
-- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'
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- I am willing to love all mankind, except an American
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Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's... - Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none,
and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel... - It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has
done,
compared to what he might have done. -- Samuel Johnson... - 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'... - Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,
it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson... - Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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Samuel... - People in distress never think you feel enough.
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Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709... - Language is the dress of thought.
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Samuel... - To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel...
