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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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Change
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Cruelty
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Epitaphs
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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge

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Epitaphs

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. Thats the story of my private life. – Gloria Swanson

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Epitaphs

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

Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Epitaphs

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. – Arthur Balfour

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