The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.Samuel Johnson
Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an access of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. Of Thomas Sheridan (17191788), actor, lecturer, and author.
Samuel Johnson
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Samuel Johnson
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real no man thinks much of that which he despises.
Samuel Johnson
I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope
Samuel Johnson
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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