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“I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.”

— Samuel Johnson · Writing

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.”

— Samuel Johnson · Knowledge

“An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“Our aspirations are our possibilities.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”

— Samuel Johnson · Quotations

“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”

— Samuel Johnson · Quotations

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.”

— Samuel Johnson · Mankind

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

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

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

— Samuel Johnson · Writing

“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”

— Samuel Johnson · No category

“Hope is necessary in every condition.”

— Samuel Johnson · Hope