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Why Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is…
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
- Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
- Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign…
- Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him.…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes