A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.Samuel Johnson
If a man were to go by chance at the same time with Burke under a shed, to shun a shower, he would say - 'this is an extraordinary man.'
Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts
Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
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