A. Johnson
A. Johnson
wise husband infidelity
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
grateful race insulting
Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
pretty-woman risk driving
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
class curiosity desire
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.
pain curiosity desire
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
statistics poet individual
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.
example statistics
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
money men affluence
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
food feds ill
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
life art novelty
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
sleep animal vegetables
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.
sorrow together would-be
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
deceit chill benevolence
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
ease deceit guilty
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.