Today’s One-Liner (#121)

 He that has read Shakespeare with attention will perhaps find little new in the crowded world.  –Dr. Samuel Johnson, dedication in Mrs. Lennox’ Shakespeare Illustrated, 1753, cited in  A Johnson Sampler, edited by Henry Darcy…

Dr. Samuel Johnson

Harold: You sure have a way with people.Maude: Well, they’re my species!—Harold and Maude, 1971 film He was no philosopher of abstractions as were Berkeley, Descartes, Kant. He was a moral philosopher, perhaps, a moralist…