Maxioms by Samuel Johnson
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered read more
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen
