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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment»
«In Lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath»
«This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to»
«Truth allows no choice»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Truth
«In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Laugh In
«He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: suspects
«No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little»
«A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: inclination
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: formerly
«A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden»