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"Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!"
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Samuel JohnsonIt is mans own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid — Samuel Johnson
"It is mans own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age."
It is mans own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictiona
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Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictiona
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"Ill come no more behind your scenes, [[w:David Garrick|David [Garrick]]]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities."
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"A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone."
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"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."
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"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
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"To a poet nothing can be useless."
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