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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
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Samuel Johnson |
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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Samuel Johnson |
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,--poverty.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
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Samuel Johnson |
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He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Samuel Johnson |
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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Samuel Johnson |
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Blown about with every wind of criticism.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.
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Samuel Johnson |
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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
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