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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Chance | Keywords: drowned, jail
«Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Courtesy
«Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.»
«The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Writers
«The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate»
«Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language»
«A jest breaks no bones»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Jest | Keywords: jest
«The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: arrow, bruised, coarse
«Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present»
«Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty»