Samuel Johnson

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. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer

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Quote Left The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another Quote Right
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Quote Left The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Quote Right
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Quote Left Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Quote Right
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Quote Left Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. Quote Right
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Quote Left If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Quote Right
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