{"author":"Samuel Johnson","author_id":"Samuel+Johnson","total_quotes":348,"quotes":[{"text":"It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["happiness"],"id":481,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["praise","flattery"],"id":731,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"Were it not for imagination  a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["imagination"],"id":1107,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"Friendship  peculiar boon of Heaven  The noble mind's delight and pride  To men and angels only given  To all the lower world denied.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["friendship"],"id":1214,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["pain","understanding"],"id":1716,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"The drama's laws  the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please  must please to live.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["acting"],"id":2113,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["battle","soft","treating "],"id":4262,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"Knowledge is of two kinds  we know a subject ourselves  or we know where we can find information upon it.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["knowledge"],"id":6119,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"Despair is criminal.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["self","pity"],"id":7317,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"As the Spanish proverb says  'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him  if he would bring home knowledge.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["traveling"],"id":7548,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":348,"pages":35,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}