. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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Articles about Samuel Johnson or articles that mention Samuel Johnson.
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. Go to Quote / Comment
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. Go to Quote / Comment
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Go to Quote / Comment
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. Go to Quote / Comment
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore. Go to Quote / Comment