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“President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.”
Richard M. Nixon quotes (American 37th US President (1969-74), 1913-1994)

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“Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.”
Herbert Mitgang quotes

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“During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk”
Fred Allen quotes (American Comedian, 1894-1956)

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“ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature. 1804-1864)

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“CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. "Close-fisted Scotchman!" Johnson cried To thrifty J. Macpherson; "See me --I'm ready to divide With any worthy person." Sad Jamie: "That is very true -- The boast requires no backing; And all are worthy, sir, to you, Who have what you are lacking." --Anita M. Bobe”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“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.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.”
Jack Valenti quotes

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“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”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson”
James Boswell quotes (Scottish Biographer, 1740-1795)

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Johnson synonyms: Dr. Johnson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, President Johnson, Samuel Johnson.

Quotes by: Jack Johnson, Magic Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Michael Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Don Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Beverly Johnson, Ben Johnson, Samuel Johnson.

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