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Samuel Johnson, LL.D. bol anglický básnik a esejista.

✵ 18. september 1709 – 13. december 1784
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Samuel Johnson citát: „Zachovať si svoje tajomstvo je múdrosť, ale očakávať, že ho zachovajú ostatní, je hlúposť.“

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„Druhé manželstvo: triumf nádejí nad skúsenosťami.“

Varianta: Manželstvo je triumf nádeje nad skúsenosťou.

Samuel Johnson: Citáty v angličtine

“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.”

1776
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.”

Samuel Johnson kniha A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Declamation roared, while Passion slept.”

Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)

“The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”

1780?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”

Letter from Johnson to John Taylor, 18 August 1763. The Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred R. Shapiro, pg 400.

“You see they'd have fitted him to a T.”

1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.”

April 25, 1778, p. 403
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”

May 8, 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.”

1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things — the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.”

"It's written by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871-1964), as part of a 1917 preface to Boswell's 'Life of Johnson.'"
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#2 Retrieved 2013-07-07
Misattributed

“The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.”

The Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1756) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/browne.html

“It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.”

Of roast mutton served to him at an inn, June 3, 1784, p. 535
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.”

Kearsley, 604
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.”

1772
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”

Samuel Johnson kniha A Dictionary of the English Language

Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Pleasure of itself is not a vice.”

April 15, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.”

On his final illness, 1784, p. 566
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”

April 24, 1779, p. 424
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

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