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• Example is always more effacious than precept. Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]
• 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]...
• Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• Books without the knowledge of life are useless. -- Samuel Johnso
• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, February 1755...
• Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• It is insufficiently considered that men more often require to be reminded than informed.
  -- Samuel Johnso...