More from Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
- Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson on education
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1775) p. 273
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