Samuel Johnson Quotes
Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
Johnson, Samuel. "No. 99." The Rambler, J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 120.
Compare Mark 3:25, above, and Abraham Lincoln's use of the phrase in one of his most famous speeches.
He was referring to the Volunteers of Ireland who had politically organized.
There is a Jewish version of this saying the inly difference being the ethnicity of the three people.
The debate had come to an impasse over the issue of voting and taxation by state equally or proportional to the population. Witherspoon warned of the consequence of there being no agreement on some form of unity.
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
