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Samuel Johnson: The
celebrated lexicographer's 10 finest quotes and witticisms
Today's Google Doodle
raises a dish of tea to the man who said, 'Sir, you have but two topics,
yourself and me. I am sick of both'
A rather tepid selection, as you might expect from Google,
aka, America’s friendly domestic face of the CIA.
Johnson could be so forceful and was one of our great
defenders of humanity.
I've always especially liked, "How is it that we hear
the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"
That rings true down to the present day in some sense.
The words were a dart aimed right for the heart of Thomas
Jefferson, the century's greatest hypocrite.
