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• I am willing to love all mankind, except an American -- Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's "Life
• 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]...
• 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...
• 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]...
• 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]...
• Books without the knowledge of life are useless. -- Samuel Johnso
• People in distress never think you feel enough. -- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
• Language is the dress of thought. -- Samuel Johnso
• To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. -- Samuel Johnso