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  • The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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    Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.499

  • I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

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    Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.405

  • To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

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    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.106

  • Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

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    Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.51

  • You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

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  • Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

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    Samuel Johnson (1997). “The Sayings of Doctor Johnson”, p.10, Gerald Duckworth & Co
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Samuel Johnson

  • Born: September 18, 1709
  • Died: December 13, 1784
  • Occupation: Writer
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