Attorney Quote by Samuel Johnson

“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

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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms…

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You can never be wise unless you love reading.

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If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise

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All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

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The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.

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Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

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“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

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“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…

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