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Letter "J" » Johnson
«I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it»
Author: Andrew Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
andy, interprets, Johnson, sworn, upheld, uphold, upholds
«Go back to your playpen, baby. [Penny Johnson]»
«Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.»
«During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk»
«I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Johnson, Taverns, trifling
«Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
article, beefsteak, Dr., Dr. Johnson, Dr, Dr Johnson, Johnson
«Boswell: It is impossible to refute it - Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, 'I refute it thus»
«BOSWELL: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . . JOHNSON: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, countryman, countrymen, Johnson, Scotland, sir
«Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see»
«BOSWELL: Sir, you observed one day . . . that a man is never happy for the present, but when he is drunk. Will you not add, - or when driving rapidly in a post-chaise? JOHNSON: No, Sir, you are driving rapidly from something, or to something.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, chaise, Johnson, post chaise, rapidly
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