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The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.


Samuel Johnson

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SAMUEL JOHNSON Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with hims...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many thing...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external age...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled w...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
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