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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1434)

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Samuel Johnson
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
Samuel Johnson
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When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.
Leslie Stephen
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Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
Leslie Stephen
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Satire is focused bitterness.
Leo Rosten
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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Samuel Johnson
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Samuel Johnson
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
Samuel Johnson
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
Denis Diderot
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The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend We are not amused hanging from it.
Henry Watson Fowler
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
Samuel Johnson
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Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
Samuel Johnson
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
Samuel Johnson
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
Denis Diderot
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A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
Samuel Johnson
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
Samuel Johnson
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Literature is the expression of society.
Charles Nodier
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson
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Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
Richard Chenevix Trench
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
Samuel Johnson
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When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
Samuel Johnson
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Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.
Samuel Johnson
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Men have been wise in many different modes but they have always laughed the same way.
Samuel Johnson
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