. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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Articles about Samuel Johnson or articles that mention Samuel Johnson.
Here are a few random quotes by Samuel Johnson.
See also: All Samuel Johnson Quotes
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. Go to Quote / Comment
A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience Go to Quote / Comment
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good Go to Quote / Comment
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Go to Quote / Comment
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Go to Quote / Comment