Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Author » Johnson, Samuel
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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.