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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Samuel Johnson. (1709–1784) (continued)

4086

You see they ’d have fitted him to a T.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). 1 Vol. viii. Chap. v. 1784.

4087

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). 2 Vol. viii. Chap. v. 1784.

4088

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. 3

Life of Johnson (Boswell). 4 Vol. viii. Chap. v. 1784.

4089

Blown about with every wind of criticism. 5

Life of Johnson (Boswell). 6 Vol. viii. Chap. x. 1784.

4090

If the man who turnips cries
Cry not when his father dies,
’T is a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 30.

4091

He was a very good hater.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 39.

4092

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 58.

4093

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 154.

4094

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 178.

4095

Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 197.

4096

Round numbers are always false.

Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 235.

4097

    As with my hat 7 upon my head
  I walk’d along the Strand,
I there did meet another man
  With his hat in his hand. 8

Johnsoniana. George Steevens. 310.

4098

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Johnsoniana. Hannah More. 467.

4099

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

Johnsoniana. Northcote. 487.

Note 1.
From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835.

Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back]

Note 2.
From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835.

Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back]

Note 3.
A parody on “Who rules o’er freemen should himself be free,” from Brooke’s “Gustavus Vasa,” first edition. [back]

Note 4.
From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835.

Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back]

Note 5.
Carried about with every wind of doctrine.—Ephesians iv. 14. [back]

Note 6.
From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835.

Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back]

Note 7.
Elsewhere found, “I put my hat.” [back]

Note 8.
A parody on Percy’s “Hermit of Warkworth.” [back]

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