Samuel Johnson Quotes About Funny
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If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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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... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
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