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“ ”Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
About Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [7 September O.S.] – 13 December 1784) was a British author, linguist and lexicographer. He is often referred to as simply Dr. Johnson in the history of literature and is regarded as the greatest man of letters in English history.
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Additional quotes by Samuel Johnson
A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude. But the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.