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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson -
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
Samuel Johnson -
The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Samuel Johnson -
Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
Samuel Johnson -
My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character as an author, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
Samuel Johnson -
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 -
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
Samuel Johnson
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A very unclubable man.
Samuel Johnson -
No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
Samuel Johnson -
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
Samuel Johnson -
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Samuel Johnson -
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson -
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Samuel Johnson
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Samuel Johnson -
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
Samuel Johnson -
Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
Samuel Johnson -
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Samuel Johnson -
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson -
Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
Samuel Johnson
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
Samuel Johnson -
Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
Samuel Johnson -
Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest
Samuel Johnson -
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson