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• The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
  -- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'...
• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1784]...
• I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), on Thomas Grey...
• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784...
• Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a package you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1773]...
• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. -- Samuel Johnso
• Mr. Johnson, you smell!" "No madam, you smell, I stink." -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...