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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.»
«Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.»
«If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.»
«Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.»
«His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.»
«It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
censured, printing, sleep with, unbolted, unrestrained