"Don't think of retiring from the world until……" — Samuel Johnson
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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