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If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.”
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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. Samuel Johnson
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It bears only three marks – one vertical and one at 45° to each side – showing times of prayer.01388 602860"It rather awes than pleases," as Samuel Johnson put it.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Samuel Johnson
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Samuel Johnson
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Grief is a species of idleness. Samuel Johnson
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He even won a number of skirmishes with Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great English lexicographer, poet, and critic, who sneered at American words as "barbarisms" and the language of the Yankees as a "dialect," then a pejorative term.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson said, ‘When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.’
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson
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An interpretation of Samuel Johnson's well-known essay, Rambler 4:On Fiction is given. The essay's unique and graceful style, the moral connotation and theme are expounded.
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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Samuel Johnson
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson and his wife had their first quarrel on the way from the church, and Auguste Comte and his wife tiffed going down the steps from the notary's.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
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Comedian and geek Samuel Johnson Danny O'Brien has put together a happening of such perfect, involuted cleverness that it takes the breath away.
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"I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain" - from British writer Samuel Johnson.
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Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Samuel Johnson
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure. Samuel Johnson
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
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When Samuel Johnson was asked how he would refute Bishop Berkeley's philosophical proposition about the non-existence of matter, he famously kicked a stone and said: "I refute it thus!
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' Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ', pronounced Samuel Johnson in 1775.
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If Dr Samuel Johnson were given the chance to join the web 2.0 generation and post a video definition of his favourite word on the internet, he may have chosen "lexicographer".
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. Samuel Johnson
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Grief is a species of idleness. Samuel Johnson
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Samuel Johnson
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Samuel Johnson
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Certain literary figures have attracted special scrutiny, in recent years none more so than Samuel Johnson.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. Samuel Johnson
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Among the elite of aphorists are Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, and Gore Vidal.
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If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification ofwords.”
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But perhaps the best refutation of the idea that philosophy and morality are unconnected came, as we might have expected, from Samuel Johnson.
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I shall collect authentick materials for The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Samuel Johnson
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
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To spell out the point I was trying to make quite concretely with Samuel Johnson's words: there is no purely privileged or unprivileged person.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. Samuel Johnson
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson
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I have, therefore, listed Dr. Samuel Johnson in some of my memorandums of the principal planters and favourers of the enclosures, under a name which I took the liberty to invent from the Greek, Papadendrion.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
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McWilliam is perhaps the most under-rated of modern Scottish writers, a cool stylist who has a bigger vocabulary than Samuel Johnson.
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Round numbers are always false. Samuel Johnson
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. Samuel Johnson
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Jumping back to Samuel Johnson's word impute, its meaning was to subtract from that same metaphorical balance sheet. about podictionary
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Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. --- Samuel Johnson.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
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As Samuel Johnson put it: Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention.
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It was a toss - up who was dirtier, Samuel Johnson or his biographer James Boswell.
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A "clubable" person (to use a word which Dr. Samuel Johnson invented but did not put into his dictionary) is one who is fit for the familiar give and take of club-life.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
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The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? Samuel Johnson
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure. Samuel Johnson
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As the late Samuel Johnson put it quite pithily, how strange that we should hear such loud cries for liberty coming from the drivers of black men.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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We can do no better than conclude with the observation of the great aphorist Samuel Johnson:
:Acquired Taste
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Knock the "t" off the "can't.". Samuel Johnson
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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. Samuel Johnson
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“Suffice it to say,” he reported, “that all the objections to the Constitution vanished before the learning and eloquence of a William Samuel Johnson, the genuine good sense and discernment of a Sherman, and the Demosthenian energy of an Ellsworth.”
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