samuel-johnson

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I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish.
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Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Trade could not be managed by those who manage it, if it had much difficulty.
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Unmoved though witlings sneer and rivals rail; Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
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I do not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but I believe the gentleman is an attorney.
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But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
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Corneille is to Shakespeare...as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
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