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Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer

1709–1784

99 quotes, most often on Clever Jabs, Writing and Knowledge. Part of the Writers collection.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
The Idler (1758–1760), No. 30 (11 November 1758)
- Truth & Lies
- War & Peace
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1775)
- Truth & Lies
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Dr. Johnson’s Table Talk (London: 1807), p. 67
- Truth & Lies
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
In James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), entry for 21 July 1763
- Clever Jabs
- Truth & Lies

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