I take my shoes from the shoemaker and my coat from
the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest' (Goldsmith), ii. 214.

SHOES. 'Mankind could do better without your books than without my
shoes,' i. 448.

SHOOT. 'You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another,'
ii. 450;
'You have _set_ him that I might shoot him, but I have not shot him,'
iv. 83.

SHOOTERS. 'Where there are many shooters, some will hit,' iii. 254.

SHORT-HAND. 'A long head is as good as short-hand' (Mrs. Thrale), iv. 166.

SHOT. 'He is afraid of being shot getting _into_ a house, or hanged
when he has got _out_ of it,' iv. 127.

SICK. 'Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me, I am sick of
both,' iii. 57;
'To a sick man what is the public?' iv. 260, n. 2.

SIEVE. 'Sir, that is the blundering economy of a narrow understanding.
It is stopping one hole in a sieve,' iii. 300.

SINNING. 'The gust of eating pork with the pleasure of sinning'
(Dr. Barrowby), iv. 292.

SLAUGHTER-HOUSE. 'Let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky.
But I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.

SLIGHT. 'If it is a slight man and a slight thing you may [laugh at
a man to his face], for you take nothing valuable from him,' iii. 338.

SLUT. 'She was generally slut and drunkard, occasionally whore and
thief,' iv. 103.

SMALL. 'Small certainties are the bane of men of talents' (Strahan),
ii. 323.

SMILE. 'Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,' ii. 79.

SOBER. 'I would not keep company with a fellow who lies as long as
he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word
of truth out of him,' ii. 188.

SOCIETY. 'He puts something into our society and takes nothing out
of it,' v. 178.

SOCKET. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often
dies in the socket,' iii. 423.

SOFT. 'Sir, it is such a recommendation as if I should throw you out
of a two pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft,'
iv. 323.

SOLDIERS. 'Soldiers die scattering bullets,' v. 240.

SOLEMNITY. 'There must be a kind of solemnity in the manner of a
professional man,' iv. 310.

SOLITARY. 'Be not solitary, be not idle' (Burton), iii. 415.

SOLITUDE. 'This full-peopled world is a dismal solitude,' iv. 147, n. 2.

SORROW. 'There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow,' iii.
137, n. 1.

SORRY. 'Sir, he said all that a man should say; he said he was sorry
for it,' ii. 436.

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