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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. | Samuel Johnson |
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No man ever yet became great by imitation. | Samuel Johnson |
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No man is hypocrite in his pleasures. | Samuel Johnson |
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. | Samuel Johnson |
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. | Samuel Johnson |
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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. | Samuel Johnson |
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous | Samuel Johnson |
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. | Samuel Johnson |
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. | Samuel Johnson |
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. | Samuel Johnson |
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Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument. | Samuel Johnson |
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Promise, is a promise, is the soul of an advertisement. | Samuel Johnson |
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. | Samuel Johnson |
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author. | Samuel Johnson |
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. | Samuel Johnson |
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