Samuel Johnson quotes

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He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments of our fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769,... he had said ...
Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient f ...
On his favourite subject of subordination, Johnson said, "So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two p ...
We talked of the education of children; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first. JOHNSON. "Sir, it is no matt ...
We stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that ev ...
I told him that Goldsmith had said,... "As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion ...
Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenan ...
Sir, there is more knowledge in a letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones.
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His Majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing. He answered, he was not, for he had pretty well told the world what he knew ...
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