Samuel Johnson Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
 
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Suggest Revision: All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
 
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Suggest Revision: The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety
 
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Suggest Revision: All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
 
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Suggest Revision: Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
 
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Suggest Revision: As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain
 
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Suggest Revision: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see
 
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Suggest Revision: He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence
 
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Suggest Revision: If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons
 
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Suggest Revision: A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
 
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