Samuel Johnson

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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