Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen1J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... wise , or that he has any other excellence . Then , all censure of a man's self is oblique praise . It is in order to shew how much he can spare . It has all the invidiousness of self - praise , and all the re- proach of falsehood ...
... wise , or that he has any other excellence . Then , all censure of a man's self is oblique praise . It is in order to shew how much he can spare . It has all the invidiousness of self - praise , and all the re- proach of falsehood ...
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... wise thing . " " I have done a good thing ( said the gentleman ) , but I do not know that I have done a wise thing . " - JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; no money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction . A man is pleased ...
... wise thing . " " I have done a good thing ( said the gentleman ) , but I do not know that I have done a wise thing . " - JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; no money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction . A man is pleased ...
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... Wise married women don't trouble themselves about the infidelity of their husbands . ” — Bos- WELL . " To be sure there is a great difference between the offence of infidelity in a man and that of his wife . - 7 . " The difference is ...
... Wise married women don't trouble themselves about the infidelity of their husbands . ” — Bos- WELL . " To be sure there is a great difference between the offence of infidelity in a man and that of his wife . - 7 . " The difference is ...
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... wise is useless labour . Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years than other children , what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted , and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be ...
... wise is useless labour . Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years than other children , what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted , and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be ...
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... wise as you 66 can ; let a man be aliis lætus , sapiens sibi : ' Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play , I mind my compass and my way . ' You may be wise in your study in the morning , and gay in company at a tavern in the evening ...
... wise as you 66 can ; let a man be aliis lætus , sapiens sibi : ' Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play , I mind my compass and my way . ' You may be wise in your study in the morning , and gay in company at a tavern in the evening ...
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