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

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Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. Chap. x. 1784.

If the man who turnips cries

Cry not when his father dies,

'T is a proof that he had rather

Have a turnip than his father.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 30.

He was a very good hater.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 39.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 58.