Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.
Chapter 46
'A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge,' iii. 302.
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LABOUR. 'It appears to me that I labour when I say a good thing,' iii. 260; v. 77; 'No man loves labour for itself,' ii. 99.
LACE. 'Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues,' iii. 188, n. 4.
LACED COAT. 'One loves a plain coat, another loves a laced coat,' ii. 192.
LACED WAISTCOAT. If everybody had laced waistcoats we should have people working in laced waistcoats,' ii. 188.
_Laetus. 'Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi_,' iii. 405.
LANGUAGES. 'Languages are the pedigree of nations,' v. 225.
LATIN. 'He finds out the Latin by the meaning, rather than the meaning by the Latin,' ii. 377.
LAWYERS. 'A bookish man should always have lawyers to converse with,' iii. 306.
LAY. 'Lay your knife and your fork across your plate,' ii. 51.
LAY OUT. 'Sir, you cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours,' ii. 194.
LEAN. 'Every heart must lean to somebody,' i. 515.
LEARNING. 'He had no more learning than what he could not help,'