"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should……" — Samuel Johnson
"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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More Bookish Quotes
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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
— Ray Bradbury
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact,…
— John Donne
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I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years…
— Vera-Ellen
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Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge.…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand…
— C W Ceram
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I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on…
— Piper Perabo
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky,…
— John Cowper Powys
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One…
— Raj Patel
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Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to…
— Germaine Greer
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
— Richard Rorty
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on…
— Natalie Merchant
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Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied.…
— Christopher Bram
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