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Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
As with my hat 7 upon my head I walk’d along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. 8
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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Samuel Johnson (18 de setembro de 1709 - 13 de dezembro de 1784) foi um escritor inglês que se tornou um dos mais célebres intelectuais do seu tempo. Nascido em Lichfield, Staffordshire, lutou com problemas de saúde e financeiros durante grande parte da sua vida. A sua obra mais influente, 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), foi um marco na lexicografia inglesa, definindo o vocabulário e a ortografia da língua. Johnson também produziu ensaios perspicazes, sermões, poemas e biografias, incluindo 'Lives of the Poets'. Foi uma figura central nos círculos literários de Londres, conhecido pela sua inteligência aguçada, conversação brilhante e opiniões firmes. A sua vida e obra foram imortalizadas na 'Life of Samuel Johnson' de James Boswell, uma das biografias mais importantes da literatura inglesa.