Quote #63

CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

More from Samuel Johnson

  1. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
  2. ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
  3. Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
  4. EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom exci…
  5. But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehensio…
  6. GRUBSTREET - The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.
  7. Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equall…
  8. LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

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