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Quote by Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. - Samuel Johnson

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Samuel Johnson
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Writing
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Samuel Johnson
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Fish, Fishing
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Samuel Johnson
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Epitaphs
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And were an epitaph to be my story Id have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lovers quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost

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Epitaphs

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right. – Gregory Nunn

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Epitaphs

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. – Proverb

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Epitaphs

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. – Robert Emmet

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Epitaphs

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car

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. – Josh Billings

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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. – Otto von Bismarck

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great