Classic Quotes by Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexcographer
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.