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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]...
• We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire
• We are born crying, live complaining, die disappointed.
• 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...
• 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...
• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)