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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]...
• Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Language is the dress of thought. -- Samuel Johnso
• There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man.
  The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self. -- Samuel Johnso...
• I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs.
  It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...