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Talking of our feeling for the distresses of others;MJOHNSON. "Why, Sir, there is much noise made about it, but it is greatly exaggerated.... BOSWELL. "But suppose now, Sir, that one of your intimate ...
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. (Originally published 1791). Boswell's Life of Johnson, Oct. 18, 1769, pp. 416-17, Oxford U...
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''Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, March 28, 1776 (1791).
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''Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 4, eds. W.J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss (1969). Ra...
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''What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. (Originally published 1791). Boswell's Life of Johnson, April 13, 1773, p. 513, Oxford Univ...
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''The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, entry for 1781 (1791).
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''The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 3, eds. W.J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss (1969). Ra...
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it ...
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. (Originally published 1791). Boswell's Life of Johnson, April 7, 1775, p. 615, Oxford Unive...
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''Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Said to the lawyer Oliver Edwards. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, April 1...
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''That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 3, eds. W.J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss (1969). Ra...
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''As we walked along the Strand to-night, arm in arm, a woman of the town accosted us, in the usual enticing manner. "No, no, my girl, (said Johnson) it won't do."''
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. (Originally published 1791). Boswell's Life of Johnson, July 30, 1763, p. 323, Oxford Unive...
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