All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 25 Apr. 1778.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Samuel Johnson

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 31 July 1763.

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But where says some is the king of America?...In America the law is king.

Thomas Paine

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, sect. 3.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 3.

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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

John Paul Jones

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Jones, John Paul. Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont. 16 Nov. 1778.

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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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