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Famous Quotes By Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer, author and critic was born at Lichfield, England on September 18, 1709. He died in 1784 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London.

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When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.


If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.


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.


This man I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find, he is only a wit among Lords.


Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.


This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.


A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.


What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.


Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them


Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich.

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