Maxioms by Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but
I find he is only a wit read more
This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but
I find he is only a wit among lords.
