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~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~
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Samuel Johnson Quotes


A British author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was a British author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.

Here are some famous quotes by Samuel Johnson.




I like a good hater.
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Despair is criminal.
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Clear your mind of 'can't'.
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Round numbers are always false.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2015, 12:56:56 PM »
Example is more efficacious than precept.
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« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2015, 12:57:24 PM »
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
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« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2015, 12:57:56 PM »
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2015, 12:58:26 PM »
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
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« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2015, 12:59:03 PM »
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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