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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections: from the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson
A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Results from Poor Man's College:

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1775

Results from Contributed Quotations:

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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