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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims”, p.69

Language is the dress of thought.

Lives of the English Poets "Cowley" (1779 - 1781)

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 18 Apr. 1775)

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Samuel Johnson (1754). “Irene: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. By Mr. Samuel Johnson”, p.35

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.66