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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)
I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)
If the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)
Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)
He was a very good hater.
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)