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    Samuel Johnson

    Read through the most famous quotes from Samuel Johnson




    If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #life #solitude #life

    The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #bed #happiest #life #lying #man

    It is better to live rich than to die rich. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #die #live #rich #than

    men do not suspect faults which they do not commit ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #faults #men #suspecting #men

    Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #death #focus #hanging #irony #death

    I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #effort #frustration #respect #understanding-others #education

    Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #importance #language #words #life

    I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #cheapshots #humor #humor

    Language is the dress of thought. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #language #thought

    [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #virtues #courage






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    Did you know about Samuel Johnson?

    He soon contracted scrofula known at that time as the "King's Evil" because it was thought royalty could cure it. Instead of writing the whole work himself he dictated to Hector who then took the copy to the printer and made any corrections.

    After working as a teacher he moved to London where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage the poems "London" and "The Vanity of Human WiSamuel Johnsons" and the play Irene. S.

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