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Samuel Johnson
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. ✨ 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) preface (on citations of usage in a dictionary)
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). The Life of Samuel Johnson, p.125
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1836). Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayi … ▶
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). The Life of Samuel Johnson, p.69
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze. ✨ Samuel Johnson (2010). Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the … ▶

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. ✨ 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) preface (on citations of usage in a dictionary)

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