The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to select objects, and to cull from the mass of mankind, those individuals upon which the attention ought most to be employed; as a diamond, though it cannot be made, may be polished by art, and placed in such a situation, as to display that luster which before was buried among common stones.
Samuel Johnsonmen do not suspect faults which they do not commit
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
Samuel JohnsonEvery man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel JohnsonReason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.
Samuel JohnsonPeople have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!
Samuel JohnsonYou can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.
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