“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”

– Samuel Johnson.

“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” 

– Samuel Johnson. 

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.”

— Samuel Johnson. 

“A woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, and you are surprised to find it done at all.”

—Samuel Johnson.

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
—Samuel Johnson,
writer.

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784)

“One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”

~Samuel Johnson.


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