About Samuel Johnson
1709 – 1784
English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.
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“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”
“Arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home.”
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”
“Hence vain deluding Joys, the brood of Folly without father bred!”
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”