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Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
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In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.
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We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.
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Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!
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Friendship, the wine of life, should, like a well stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed.
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I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
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I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
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What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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A page of my Journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
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As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best — there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.
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In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.
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Boswell is pleasant and gay,
For frolic by nature designed;
He heedlessly rattles away
When company is to his mind.
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
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I saw what seemed a mere shrimp mount upon the table, but, as I listened, he grew and grew until the shrimp became a whale.
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything....
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I have never yet exerted ambition in rising in the state. But sure I am, no man has made his way better to the best company.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
October 29, 1740
Died:
May 19, 1795
(aged 54)
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