Samuel Johnson Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
 
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Suggest Revision: Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
 
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Suggest Revision: No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
 
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Suggest Revision: Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,
 
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Suggest Revision: Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt
 
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Suggest Revision: Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
 
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Suggest Revision: I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
 
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Suggest Revision: For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed;
 
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Suggest Revision: There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets
 
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Suggest Revision: The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
 
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