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Source: Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
“I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
“Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona
“The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.”
“Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.”
“This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes