Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. iii. 1776.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. iv. 1776.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. iv. 1776.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. ix. 1777.

Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. ix. 1777.