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Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican, and a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson was selected by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
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Samuel Johnson Quotes Page 12
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
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