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• The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
  -- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'...
• Mark Twain to young writers: "Whatever you like best, strike it out." -- Thomas Boswell
• I am willing to love all mankind, except an American -- Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's "Life
• 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...
• 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]...
• 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]...
• You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. -- Samuel Johnso
• People in distress never think you feel enough. -- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
• If you go into heat, package your meat.