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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]...
• He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." Samuel Johnso
• He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. -- Samuel Johnso
• He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), on Thomas Grey...
• Language is the dress of thought. -- Samuel Johnso
• Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made. Immanuel Kant [1784]
• Avarice is always poor. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• Books without the knowledge of life are useless. -- Samuel Johnso