BiographyPatriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1778★ 7.1
LetterI wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.John Paul Jones1778★ 5.2
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.Voltaire1778★ 4.5
BiographyAll censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1778★ 3.7
Political literatureIt is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.Thomas PaineThe American Crisis · 1778★ 3.6
LetterPeople wish their enemies dead-but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!Lady Mary Wortley Montagu1778★ 3.6
BiographyI am willing to love all mankind, except an American.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1778★ 2.1
BiographyI have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.Oliver EdwardsJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1778★ 1.9
LetterIt is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.Abigail Adams1778★ 1.1
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