Top Ten Best Samuel Johnson Quotes & Written Works
Samuel Johnson was a British author, linguist & lexicographer.The Top Ten
1 In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
2 It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
3 As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
4 I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
5 He who praises everybody praises nobody.
6 This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
7 Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
8 Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
9 No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
10 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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