No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.Samuel Johnson
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Samuel Johnson
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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