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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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