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Samuel Johnson, opsimath
Lazy, depressive, productive, late bloomer, Samuel Johnson is an example of the Fitzgerald Rule
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“You can never be wise until you learn to love reading.”
On my love of Samuel Johnson.
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Was Samuel Johnson a masochist?
According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge
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Samuel Johnson, ghost hunter
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
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Samuel Johnson, opsimath
Lazy, depressive, productive, late bloomer
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Samuel Johnson and Progress Studies
In the late 1740s, Zachariah Williams was evicted from the Charterhouse, a City of London almshouse for people who require charitable help to live.
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Where was Samuel Johnson in 1745?
This is what Boswell has to say about a strange gap in the record of Johnson’s life:
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Samuel Johnson: Reading for Wisdom
One day, I want to be wise.
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New Year's Resolutions with Samuel Johnson
Every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes.
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The unlikely similarity of J.S. Mill and Samuel Johnson.
Human happiness is the result of effort, but is not entirely within our control.
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Good wishes from Samuel Johnson
Dear Sir, —This is the time of the year in which all express their good wishes to their friends, and I send mine to you and your family.
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35 pieces of practical wisdom from my common place book
Ideas that have stayed with me
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