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- Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which… — James Boswell
- Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell
- Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they… — Jane Porter
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson
- Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be… — Earl Nightingale
- One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many… — Helen Hunt Jackson
- The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical… — Morris Kline
- Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr.… — James Boswell
- The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge
- I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of… — George Galloway
- Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote… — William Hazlitt
- Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism… — Ambrose Bierce