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No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
&#;Samuel Johnson, on the behavior of the British colonists in America; "An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain."

Want ready access to some Samuel Johnson quotations and some of his more concise thoughts? That's why this site exists. Samuel Johnson (often referred to as "Doctor Johnson"), literary titan of the 18th century &#; essayist, lexicographer, poet, editor, critic, and famous talker &#; is the second most quoted person in the English language, after Shakespeare. More than a thousand quotes and snippets are here, organized by theme (see the Topical Guide), and Searchable. (If you're not searching for a specific Samuel Johnson quote, you might look at the Sampler of Popular Johnson Quotes to get an initial idea.)

What follows are ten of the wittiest and most interesting quotes (or, if you prefer, quotations) by the great Samuel Johnson (). Also known as Dr Johnson, he has often been praised for his wit and wisdom (and outspokenness) on all manner of subjects. He wrote only one novel, Rasselas (which he wrote rapidly to pay for his mother&#;s funeral expenses), and is now better remembered, not as a poet or a critic (though he was praised as both), but as a lexicographer (he composed the first detailed dictionary of the English language) and as a great conversationalist. Here are ten of our favourite quotes from the great Doctor, on a wide variety of topics. Most of these quotes come to us via his trusty biographer, James Boswell (), whose Life of Samuel Johnson () is often called one of the great literary biographies.

On life: &#;Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.&#;

On reading: &#;A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.&#;

On money: &#;Whatever you have, spend less.&#;

On free speech: &#;Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right t