Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 September1709 och dog den 13 Dezember 1784 - English writer
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There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators
There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self.
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets
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
They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master
They that enter into the world are too often treated with unreasonable rigor by those that were once as ignorant and heady as themselves; and distinction is not always made between the faults which require speedy and violent eradication, and those t
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