2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson


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    The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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    Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour’d and lov’d: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

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    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

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    Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don’t let him go to the devil, where he is known.

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    Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

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    From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise.

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    Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance.

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    Don’t tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

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